Looking Back from the Sunset Land; Or, People Worth Knowing (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...to read. On the forenoon of the following Sabbath I preached again in the Methodist Church to a good-sized congregation, nearly all colored people, from the text: " 'Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty.' I showed the meaning, that it did not give license to sin, nor freedom from restraint, but that when God by his Spirit gives his favor and his blessing there is freedom, e. g. "i. In God's law. The Bible is a law of liberty. Here I showed the falseness of the southern or pro-slavery interpretation. "2. In the Gospel. Grace is free--salvation is free. The Gospel makes no distinction on account of color. "3. In. the church. In her there should be no slaveholder or slave. How can any church be Christ's in which members are enslaved by members--no liberty to read, to speak, to print or to preach the truth as to slavery? "4. In the government. On this I said but little, showing only that the nation is guilty, that the present war is a divine judgment, and that there would be no peace without emancipation. God is giving blood to drink. I closed by exhorting them to faith in Christ and to freedom from sin and wrath. "A few whites were present, all members of slaveholding churches. The colored people not only were attentive but many of them showed excitement. They were hearing a new and strange Gospel: and then and there I prayed God to bless it for their salvation. ' In the afternoon I preached my farewell sermon from the text, 'There shall be no night there, ' adapting the words spoken to the people in the night of fear and sorrow such as only slaves know.' After the services I went again to visit the sick man, Abel Middleton, in a critical condition in fever. He again asked me to pray with or for him. When bidding me farewell he warmly...