Emancipation in the West Indies: A Six Months' Tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica in the Year 1837 |
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Page 101 - Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is " well pleasing unto the Lord. Fathers, provoke not " your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. Ser" vants, obey in all things your masters according to the " flesh ; not with eye service, as men pleasers, but in " singleness of heart, fearing God...
Page 39 - We thank Thee, Lord, for this our food, But more because of Jesus' blood ; Let manna to our souls be given , The bread of Life sent down from heaven.
Page 101 - Christ; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; with good will doing service, as to the Lord and not to men, knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
Page 307 - Resolved, That we never will separate ourselves voluntarily from the slave population in this country ; they are our brethren by the ties of consanguinity, of suffering, and of wrong ; and we feel that there is more virtue in suffering privations with them, than fancied advantages for a season.
Page 141 - they clapped their hands, leaped up, fell down, clasped each other in their free arms, cried, laughed, and went to and fro, tossing upward their unfettered hands ; but high above the whole there was a mighty sound which ever and anon swelled up ; it was the utterings, in broken negro dialect, of gratitude to God.
Page 125 - THE God of heaven is pleased to see A little family agree ; And will not slight the praise they bring, When loving children join to sing. For love and kindness please him more Than if we gave him all our store ; And children here, who dwell in love, Are like his happy ones above. The gentle child that tries to please, That hates to quarrel, fret, and tease, And would not say an angry word — That child is pleasing to the Lord. Great...
Page 141 - ... of thanksgiving, and praise, and blessing, and honor, and glory, to God, who had come down for their deliverance. In such exercises the evening was spent until the hour of twelve approached. The missionary then proposed, that, when the clock on the cathedral should begin I" strike, the whole congregation should fall upon their knees, and receive the boon of freedom in silence.
Page 141 - After this gush of excitement had spent itself, and the congregation became calm, the religious exercises were resumed, and the remainder of the night was occupied in singing and prayer, in reading the Bible, and in addresses from the missionaries, explaining the nature of the freedom just received, and exhorting the free people to be industrious, steady, obedient to the laws, and to show themselves in all things worthy of the high boon which God had conferred upon them.
Page 142 - ... urging them to the attainment of that higher liberty with which Christ maketh his children free. In every quarter we were assured that the day was like a Sabbath.
Page 354 - Now that the member of Westmoreland (Mr. Beaumont) is on our side, we shall be happy, with him and the other friends of humanity, to give a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether, until we bring down the system by the run, knock off the fetters, and let the oppressed go free.