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sympathize with servile insurrection. In this prayer-meeting the slaves
rose one after another, went in front, and repeated each a hymn, then
resumed their seats, while some one, moved by the sentiments of the
hymn, would lead in prayer. A white gentleman presided, according to
custom, and I was the only other white person present. Going to that
meeting with the impressions upon my heart of the terrible excitements
which you were witnessing at home, and saying to myself, "O my soul,
thou hast heard the sound of the trumpet and the alarm of war!" you
cannot imagine what my feelings were when the largest negro that I ever
saw rose and stood before the desk, and repeated the following hymn by
Rev. Charles Wesley. The first lines, you may well suppose, startled me,
and made me think that the insurrection had reached even here.
"Equip me for the war,
And teach my hands to fight;
My simple, upright heart prepare,
And guide my words aright.
"Control my every thought,
My whole of sin remove;
Let all my works in thee be wrought,
Let all be wrought in love.
"Oh, arm me with the mind,
Meek Lamb! that was in thee;
And let my knowing zeal be join'd
With perfect charity.
"With calm and temper'd mind
Let me enforce thy call;
And vindicate thy gracious will,
Which offers life to all.
"Oh, may I love like thee,
In all thy footsteps tread;
Thou hatest all iniquity,
But nothing thou hast made.
"Oh, may I learn the art,
With meekness to reprove;
To hate the sin with all my heart,
But still the sinner love."
You must read this hymn to "Isaiah," and tell him about the
prayer-meeting. While the "friends of the slave," as you call them, are
holding such humiliating meetings as you describe, in behalf of the
slaves, and are vexing themselves and chafing under the imagination of
their unmitigated sorrows and "oppression," the slaves themselves, all
over the South, are holding prayer-meetings, and are blessing G
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Reverend Nehemiah Adams (born February 19, 1806; died October 6, 1878) was an American clergyman and writer. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1806 to Nehemiah Adams and Mehitabel Torrey Adams. He graduated from Harvard University in 1826, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1829. He was ordained as co-pastor of First Congregational Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that same year. In 1832, he married Martha Hooper.
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Joanna Baillie (September 11, 1762February 23, 1851) was a Scottish poet and dramatist. Baillie was very well-known during her lifetime and, though a woman, intended her plays not for the closet but for the stage. Admired both for her literary powers and her sweetness of disposition, her cottage at Hampstead was the centre of a brilliant literary society. Baillie died at the age of 88, her faculties remaining unimpaired to the last.