A Slave Girl's Story: Being an Autobiography of Kate Drumgoold.Drumgoold, Kate
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A Slave Girl's Story: Being an Autobiography of Kate Drumgoold.
Drumgoold, Kate
Drumgoold, Kate; Enslaved persons -- United States -- Biography
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.
God did use him in this city to His own glory in saving men, women and
children from the very door of sin and the dread of the life which is to
come. And may the God of Heaven and the Ruler of this earth be with him
as he comes near the Jordan to make its waters calm, and enter in the
gate and hear the blessed "Well done, good and faithful servant, enter
thou in the joys of thy Lord."
J. D. Fulton is one that will have one of the highest places at God's
right hand, for he started out to look after the Ethiopian's rights when
he was only seventeen years of age. What can be said of a long life like
his, that has written and traveled and spoke to such large crowds of
hearers in the interest of the race which I represent. How I have seen
those silvery locks fly as his warm heart melted to tears as he pleaded
for the down-trodden of the Ethiopians; and if God has ever heard a
prayer I know that He hears the prayer of this dear good man, for I have
seen the answer come in mighty power, in many ways, to the saving of
precious souls, and the way that he wrote about the negro in this
country and its problem.
He was called to the Hanson Place Church to preach and he worked hard,
with God's help, and improved the church and many were brought to the
Saviour through the Word, such as the Lord will own and bless at the
last day.
Doctor Fulton is one of the best men on this broad earth to love and
labor for humanity and I do not think that my race, the noble
Ethiopians, should ever forget him as long as God shall spare his life.
When the time shall come when the dear blessed one shall be called to
the world above, and that active form is stilled in death and when that
silvery voice is no longer heard in the defence of the down-trodden
Ethiopians and the oppressed of any land, that he will hear the "Well
done, good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord."
And to think of one who has written so long never more to wield the pen
in the cause of the church and God's children is a sad thought to the
writer, for she has loved him as a father and he shall ever have a green
spot in my heart for I shall never forget his kind words to me in my
lonely hours.
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