an anomaly it would be to have an abolition
convention opened with reading a collect of Paul's inspired directions
to masters and slaves.
But we never hear anything quoted from the Bible on the subject but
"break every yoke!" "let the oppressed go free!" "undo the heavy
burdens!" I was telling a slave-holder of the frequency with which we
hear these expressions in public prayer. "I could join in every one of
them," said he; "I am for breaking every yoke, South and North,
unbinding every heavy burden, and destroying every form of oppression.
But they must be actual, not theoretical, nor imaginary."
This gentle slave in the cars, we will suppose, refuses opportunities to
escape, but complies with the exhortations of the New Testament,
"enduring grief, suffering wrongfully." His master is at last touched by
his meekness, his "not answering again." I should relate only that which
I know to have happened, should I say, that one day this master is
filled with distress on account of sin. He goes out into the
cotton-field and finds Jacob.
"Jacob," he says, "I am a great sinner. Jacob, I feel that I am sinking
into hell. Jacob, pray for me. I mean to turn about, if I live."
"Dats jest what I've sought de Lord for, massa, dis six months coming
New Year. Let's go up into de loft; it's whar I've wrastled for you in
prayer."
He leads the way. The floor of the loft is covered with cotton-seed. A
wheelbarrow is in the middle of the floor. Jacob takes off his jacket,
and with it brushes the cotton-seed away from one side of the
wheelbarrow, lays the jacket down for his master to kneel upon, and goes
to the other side. Like Jacob at Peniel, he has power over the angel,
and prevails; he weeps and makes supplication unto him. The master
breaks out in prayer. He rises and says,--
"Jacob, forgive me if I've been unkind to you; I've seen that you are a
Christian; now if you want to leave me for anybody else, say so."
"Thank you, massa; only sarve de Lord with gladness for all de good
thin
Notka biograficzna
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.