Step by Step; Or, Tidy's Way to Freedom — John Shaqi
Step by Step; Or, Tidy's Way to FreedomAmerican Tract Society
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Step by Step; Or, Tidy's Way to Freedom
American Tract Society
Enslaved persons -- United States -- Religious life; Slavery -- United States -- Religious aspects
Now this was the good old creature that Henry Wallace thought might have
to go to another heaven, because her skin was black. Do YOU think God
would need to make another heaven for her? No, indeed. But I'll tell
you, dear children, what I think. If there is a place in heaven higher
and nearer God than another, that's the place where poor old Dinah will
be found at last. I think that those who love God most, whether they are
black or white, rich or poor, learned or ignorant, refined or rude, will
stand the nearest to him in heaven. I am sure there was such warm love
between her and the Saviour, that he will not want her to be far away
from him in that bright world. He will call her up close to his side,
and look upon her with sweet, affectionate smiles all the time. And
many a one will wonder, perhaps, who that can be, so favored, so
distinguished. They will never imagine it to be the glorified body of a
poor, old, black slave, from such a wretched home,--will they?
If there are TWO heavens, I would like to be admitted to hers,--wouldn't
you?
End of Project Gutenberg's Step by Step, by The American Tract Society
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