And not long ago darkness hung over the face of this race and God moved
upon the face of this dark earth and the light came forth.
How wonderfully solemn and yet grand are these inspired thoughts and
words of a race whose God is so loving and forgiving, and we,
contemplating the grand mystery of the world beyond this vale of tears,
for God does preserve all that He has planted on this earth.
No subject can surely be a more delightful study than the history of a
slave girl, and the many things that are linked to this life that man
may search and research in the ages to come, and I do not think there
ever can be found any that should fill the mind as this book.
This is a perfect representation of things as I can remember them, and
to think how wonderful are these most beneficent streams of God's
providence to all those of our race that have prayed that their loving
children might feel the warm streams of an education flowing through
every child. Tens of thousands of miles, North, South, West and East,
God has thrown His mantle of love all around us, and it is that which
should make us love and fear Him, who is able to destroy both soul and
body; for His searching eye rests on all of the negro race, to see what
use they are going to make of their time and talent, and I hope that
nature will teach them that all of our talent belongs to the great God
who gave us our being.
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