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SLAVE PREACHING. 43
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words " be damned , " " all be judged , " " justice done , " " blessed Lamb '' " God my Lord , " jumping up and howling ,, them out , and
some down of , exhausted the women at the going bottom on jump of the ing pew and . calling After out the until sermon they , four fell two of the babies
babies and four or five adults were baptised ; were very white ; two were mulattoes and ; flaxen one baby hair was Then as white all as any I
ev Passin er saw , and had " and blue I went eyes out , and the Sunday . school we began sang . I " g away , tired out the excitement
wished mulatto shall go much men again with to some stay heads , Sunday but like was . a quite bust I saw I remember some noble by marked heads there "Vespasian : . two I
together in the Vatican . Many ; they it is must true have resemble been d brothers monkeys , thoug , but h they the maj were ority not had attentive
there very were touching not disagreeable more to reli see . ion in A in white feature the lad African , y and spoke th to an an me in , and the American said she expression thoug race ht ;
that the was poor suffering g creatures naturally turned to their Heavenly FatherI thought of a line of Mrs . Browning ' s ,
. " And they say _Godbe merciful , who ne ' er said Grod "be praised !" Sunday , 24 th .
Went to the church for colored people ; in the court-yard I in stopped the congregation a very dark man he , sai and d nearl asked y all him were if there slaves were . I many went in slaves and
heard the same singing ; I had heard before , and was more than ever struck with the intense expression of devotion on many faces . After d somethafter this
the manner down sing and ing : — visit , " a Oh colored our , Heavenl hearts man y this from Father evening his , pew we . praye Fill would us with ask th Thee ing y love to , come it is
with only Thee thy Sp be irit a which holtime can far turn withdrawn us to rig from hteousness all worldl ; let y thoug this time hts . y
Let thSiritoh God ! he aroimd , about , and within us . Steep us in describe th y y hol p y in love , the . " earnest There devotion is something of this more African pathetic race . than I am words sure
can very they rare do believe in Europeans in God . and Olmsted a future does life not with believe a vividness they are of reall faith y
reli they gious take ; p he atience calls and it superstition consolation . from Now their I call belief it reli in g God ion , ' s because eternal
justice Did I and tell love . what happened to Mr . Spring when he came South , you
and visited a slave owner who had a sick daughter ? The slaveowner well said " , " Mr Will S you assented come and they hear went my to negroes the negro pray quarter ? one prays , and
very .. . , the Uncle master Dick began said , : " " Now Oh , , God uncle Almi Dick ghty , , to m give aker us dail of heaven a short etc and prayer earth bless . " ,
th etc . ; name we thank etc . and thee for that thy th goodness daughter be us restored y , to health . ; we " fie y , , pray y his master
forgot God you see , and thought only of ' s presence .
Slave Preaching. 43
SLAVE PREACHING . 43
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1860, page 43, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031860/page/43/
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