down to hell: for if the mighty works which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. 24. But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom, in the day of judgment, than for thee." The Slave-Trade. Dewey. Other "The world is full of wrongs and evils, and full of wronged and suffering men. But still I do say that of all wrongs, slavery is the greatest. It denies to man his humanity, and all its highest and holiest rights. And of all slavery, the African is the most monstrous. men have fallen under this doom by the fate of war. They have bought life at the price of bondage. With Africa there has been no war but that of the prowling man-stealer! He has gone up among the river-glades of that ill-fated land; he has torn men and women and children, from their country and their homes, who never did him any wrong; he has hurried them to his prison-ship; he has plunged them into the dungeon of "the middle passage," — middle passage! — phrase that passes in universal speech for all the atrocities that human nature can inflict or endure, he has thrust them down into that dark, unbreathing confine, in mingling and writhing agony and despair and disease and corruption and death; he has borne them away, regardless of their tears and entreaties, and sold them into hopeless bondage in a strange land; forty millions, it is calculated, - forty millions of human beings have suffered this awful fate! Oh! it is the great felon act in humanity! Oh! it is the the world!" -- monster crime of Tenderness. "Pure Tone," "Subdued" Force, "Median Stress," "Middle Pitch, Prevalent "Semitone," "Slow Movement," Long Pauses, Gentle Emphasis. Extract from Lines to an Infant. - Coleridge. "Poor stumbler on the rocky coast of wo, Man's breathing miniature! thou mak'st me sigh, – A babe art thou-and such a thing am I! To anger rapid, and as soon appeased, - Yet snatch what coals of fire on Pleasure's altar glow! " 'O Thou that rearest, with celestial aim, The future seraph in my mortal frame, Thrice holy Faith! whatever thorns I meet, Still let me stretch my arms and cling to thee, "Expression" as before, but moderated in its characteristics. Extract from Matthew, XI. V. 28. "Come unto me, all ye that labor, and are heavy laden; and I will give you rest. 29. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me: for I am meek and lowly of heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." "Expression" as before, but more vivid. Extract from Genesis, XLIV. V. 13. "Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city. 14. And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house, (for he was yet there :) and they fell before him on the ground. 15. And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?' 16. And Judah said, 'What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold we are my lord's servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found.' 17. And he said, 'God forbid that I should do so: but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.' 18. Then Judah, came near unto him, and said, 'O my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears; and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh. 19. My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother? 20. And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him. 21. And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him. 22. And we said unto my lord, 'The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.' 23. And thou saidst unto thy servants, 'Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.' 24. And it came to pass, when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. 25. And our father said, ' Go again, and buy us a little food.' 26. And we said, 'We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down; for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother be with us.' 27. and thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two sons: 28. And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces;' and I saw him not since: 29. And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.' 30Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; (seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;) 31. It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave. 32. For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father; saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father forever.' 33. Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren. For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.”” "Expression" as before, but more solemn. Consolation.-Finlayson. 34. "Hast thou, with weeping eyes, committed to the grave the child of thy affections, the virtuous friend of thy youth, or the tender partner, whose pious attachment lightened the load of life? Behold they are not dead. Thou knowest that they live in a better region, with their Saviour and their God; that still thou holdest thy place in their remembrance; and that thou shalt soon meet them again to part no more. Dost thou look forward with trembling to the days of darkness that are to fall on thyself, when thou shalt lie on the bed of sickness, when thy pulse shall have become when the cold damps have gathered on thy brow, and the mournful looks of thy attendants have told thee that the hour of thy depart low, ure has come? To the mere natural man this scene is - - if thou awful and alarming; but if thou art a Christian, knowest and obeyest the truth, thou needest fear no evil. The shadows which hang over the valley of death shall retire at thy approach; and thou shalt see beyond it the spirits of the just, and an innumerable company of angels, the future companions of thy bliss, bending from their thrones to cheer thy departing soul, and to welcome thee into everlasting habitations." Penitence and Contrition. "Pure Tone," "Subdued" Force, "Median" and "Vanishing Stress," "High" Pitch, Prevalent "Semitone," "Slowest Movement," Long Pauses, Earnest Emphasis. "O Thou, whose tender mercy hears Whose hand indulgent wipes the tears "See, Lord, before thy throne of grace, "And shall my guilty fears prevail This only safe retreat. "Absent from thee, my Guide! my light! Through dangers, fears, and gloomy night, "Oh! shine on this benighted heart, With beams of mercy shine! And let thy healing voice impart A taste of joy divine." |