Our Brothers And Cousins: a Summer Tour in Canada And the States
Our Brothers And Cousins: a Summer Tour in Canada And the States
Macgregor, John, 1825-1892
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** Brother Page," a very eccentric black slave, exhorted in a most in- teresting and truly Christian manner, and their regular preacher, *' Jim Hamly," gave a sermon that was far better than any of the three ** white sermons '* I heard next Sunday. After my evening address, the negro hymns and prayers went on for two hours. They sing and pray with a hearty vigour, that rouses in a sober Digitized by VjOOQIC BLACK PREACHING. 91 mind the question, "Does not our propriety often suppress our earnes...tness ?" There was very little in Jim's sermon that was absurd; but the veritable Gospel was forcibly spoken. Ima- gine the little blackie in light-coloured shooting coat, ending thus, '* I may not have been jist as eloquent as Volteer, or learning like Cicero or Cato or the other scientific theologians ! " '* Jim Hamly ^^ commenced his sermon by reading the verse " Comfort ye," and, shutting the book, he said, ** Perhaps you will wonder why I don't tell where the text is to be found ; but Tm not yet arrived at the proper standing in the ministry for that." One of the choruses that was most popular sounded thus: — '* John saw the nnmher a-sitting on the altar, John saw the holy number sitting on the golden altar." On a sort of bed before the pulpit was laid a poor blind negro.
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