There is another I remember and that is Father Charles Sumner, who for
years wrote and also fought and spoke, as never man spoke, for the race
and the Civil Rights Bill, that it might not die, but it should be a
rock for the defence of the race.
And there is another that I shall not leave out of this book, for if I
did the book would be incomplete, and that is Frederick Douglass, the
greatest of men among the negro race of this country or of any land on
the globe. He wrote and spoke and went all over to try to do all he
could for his race, and who could forget such men as these? I would say
in true lines, may the earth fail to move sooner than I forget those
noble lives. Honored be their memories and honored be their ashes, for
their lives shall live in the memories of all coming generations and
their ashes will make rich the soil whereon they lie.
May God give us some more of such men as these for they are few, and we
need so many now to go forth and speak the truth.
And there is dear Doctor David Moore, that my pen, I fear, would fail to
move, if I did not do him honor. He was beloved and honored to the last
day of his stay in the Washington Avenue Baptist Church, and it was on
account of sickness that he had to leave this city and go up in the
northern part of this State that he might be able to preach the Word,
and God did make him well after he had left Brooklyn; and his work has
been crowned with great success.
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