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... NEW VIEWS ON THE RACE QUESTION XXII A LONG - REMEMBERED SERMON • · 187 198 208 • · 219 XXIII A MAN'S GOOD NAME . XXIV A STRANGER IN DOTHAN 230 241 XXV THE COMING OF THE CRISIS 250 CHAPTER XXVI THE FIRE AT HARBISON PAGE 259 XXVII AFTER.
... NEW VIEWS ON THE RACE QUESTION XXII A LONG - REMEMBERED SERMON • · 187 198 208 • · 219 XXIII A MAN'S GOOD NAME . XXIV A STRANGER IN DOTHAN 230 241 XXV THE COMING OF THE CRISIS 250 CHAPTER XXVI THE FIRE AT HARBISON PAGE 259 XXVII AFTER.
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... time yet before any writer can tell all he knows of this problem , which seems destined to test our nation more than any other question which is demanding a solution . THE TESTING FIRE CHAPTER I AN ACT OF MERCY " THE AUTHOR'S FOREWORD.
... time yet before any writer can tell all he knows of this problem , which seems destined to test our nation more than any other question which is demanding a solution . THE TESTING FIRE CHAPTER I AN ACT OF MERCY " THE AUTHOR'S FOREWORD.
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... question . He was only a boy when the war closed , bringing ruin to Alabama as to the other Southern States . His father , wounded in battle , died shortly after Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse , broken - hearted and despairing ...
... question . He was only a boy when the war closed , bringing ruin to Alabama as to the other Southern States . His father , wounded in battle , died shortly after Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse , broken - hearted and despairing ...
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... question , " you do not understand . None of the North- ern Christians understand our awful problem in the South . What your schools for Freedmen , ' as you call them , really teach is an impossible social equality between us and a race ...
... question , " you do not understand . None of the North- ern Christians understand our awful problem in the South . What your schools for Freedmen , ' as you call them , really teach is an impossible social equality between us and a race ...
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... question , but he thought he could see some reason for Legree's interest in the hotel episode . " You may call that fellow ' white , ' but I call him the blackest negro I ever saw , " Jefferson remarked with a smile . " Yes , he's coal ...
... question , but he thought he could see some reason for Legree's interest in the hotel episode . " You may call that fellow ' white , ' but I call him the blackest negro I ever saw , " Jefferson remarked with a smile . " Yes , he's coal ...
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Page 303 - For life is the mirror of king and slave, 'Tis just what we are and do; Then give to the world the best you have And the best will come back to you.
Page 290 - O Death ! the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best ! Welcome the hour my aged limbs Are laid with thee at rest ! The great, the wealthy, fear thy blow, From pomp and pleasure torn ; But, Oh ! a blest relief to those That weary-laden mourn ! A PRAYER, IN THE PROSPECT OF DEATH.
Page 104 - BACKWARD, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night ! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore ; Kiss from my forhead the furrows of care, Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair ; Over my slumbers your loving watch keep ; — Rock me to sleep, mother — rock me to sleep ! Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!
Page 252 - To plague the inventor: This even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Page 162 - What I tell you in the darkness, speak ye in the light; and what ye hear in the ear, proclaim upon the house-tops. And be not afraid of them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Page 252 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, 'With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come...
Page 97 - ... God has laid at the doors of the South, you shall have at all times the patient, sympathetic help of my race ; only let this be constantly in mind, that, while from representations in these buildings of the product of field, of forest, of mine, of factory, letters, and art, much good will come, yet far above and beyond material benefits will be that higher good, that, let us pray God, will come, in a blotting out of sectional differences and racial animosities and suspicions, in a determination...
Page 70 - Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form; yet, on my heart Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given, And shall not soon depart. He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright.
Page 128 - Lord : my goodness extendeth not to thee ; 3 But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight. 4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.
Page 47 - E'er planted in my mind ? If not, why am I subject to His cruelty or scorn ? Or why has man the will and power To make his fellow mourn...