Journal of freedom. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1865-186?, 1865-10-21

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thou shalt thresh the mountain. .aI J,
peat them small, and shall maLs Az N.Y.
nAls as chaff isaiah Alley Tihs
!eetn were sometimes made Of iron y :.
appears from Amos I-S.'' 1' -
a SERMON To PREACHER Navor sL,.u
get the remark of learned legaI
skant;,T VINO was ut one time somewhat
"nil snepi'Gal IN IN his views Said he to me !:
Dla believe as you do, that the masses
:, our race are perishing in sin. | coi,ld
nave no rest. would fly to tell them ~
I"lVaI9on. would labor day and n;ght
would speak with all the energyesnJ
Pathos could summon. / wonld wsrn
ana entr' t my fellow-men to turn nnto
GSi'rlSt, ana receive salvation az his hands
am astonlshed-at the manner in which
Spe majority OF your ministers tell yonr
message, Why, you do not act as If
you believed your own words W Vor'Sana T. =
no1 1ne earnestness in preaching that we
lawyers have in pleading. If we were
as tame as you are, we would. not carry a
a decade of years has passed awav
since that remark was made. I Mess
God 1T was addressed to me. It puta FIRE
IN my bones which l hope viii burn as
long as live. God. preached a stirr;n@
sermon to me that day by the mouth of
that lntidel lawyer.-Rey. P. Struker Of
Neo0 BrunsacicE.
CHARITABLE JUDGMENT. The following
words from a sermon of Laurin deserves
to be committed to memory as guide to
a just and charitable Judgment of the
character of others:
In order to judge properly of crime
and criminal, we must examine the
power Of the temptations to which he
was exposed the opportunities given
him 70 avoid it; the force of his natural
constitution; the motives which animat-
ed him the resistance he made; the vir
tues he ,practiced the talents God gave
him the education he had what knowl-
edge ne had acquired what remorse he
telt 1t must be examined whether he
were seduced by ignorance; whether he
were allured by example whether he
yielded through weakness whether dis
Slpation or obStinacy, malice or contempt
rot God OF His law, confirmed him in sin.
The LORD JESUS THE club. The fol-
lowing, in homely words, presents true
and happy metaphor:
A negro preacher while holding forth
to the colored soldiers then stationed at
Port Hudson, said :-"De whole ob Gods
relation to us am like de wheel. De
do h,,b do Chrio-
tlans am de spokeS and de tire am de
grace OBJ God a binden me. all together
and de nearer we get to de hub, de nearer
we get to each other.
care YOU still in the land of the liv-
ing, enquired man of an aged friend.
"No, but am going there" This world
is the shadow-heaven is the reality.
| PRESIDENT JOHNSON AND THE DEMeC-
RACY. "A distinguished gentleman in con-
versation with the President, a few days
ago, remarked to him Il perceive, Mr..
johnson, that the Copperhead DemOcra-
cy are making great efforts to capture our
President-to Withdraw him from the
party which nominated and elected him,
and to put him into the keeping OF the
party which slandered end vlllifed him
before election, and which plotted his as
sassination afterward, and should like
to know their chances of success The
President replied 81 think know them
foo we'll to be in danger of capture by
them, and 1 supposed they knew me well
enough not to make the attempt. ."-B0S-
ton Journal.
negro woman, who was baptized
few Sundays ago, at huntsville, Ala',
came forth. from the water shouting
/" Freed from slavery, freed from SIN
bless God and Gen. Grant p
A Kentucky newspaper actually admits
that the negro troops are "polite ana
oentlemanIy, and bear. the mark OF true,
Kentncky breeding" This is doubly
suggestive first, as an opinion ABOUT tnS
pe9po character, and, second, as COM
pliment to their ancestry.
An old negro man who attends to Judge
Rrvan's office accidentally found MS
1ono. lost brother few days ago. They
we're ,9 sold in Virginia when about ten
wears old, and separated. They are now
awards of sixty years of age; and made
tbe discovery that they were brothers
~L;le in conversation about the changes
worked by the war. The last seen OF tine
cid darkies they were going down Cherry
stree S arm in arm, full of glory.-N0S"-
v;zze Dispatch.
T. bos been ascertained by the Freed
nan,s Bureau, that parties from that cary
hara ~ recently been engaged in entlc,ng
treedmen from Washington on ooaru
y Vessel bound to the newly discovers
ouano islands off the Russian coast, t wnsrs
tbey uN were placed in close cOnnnemT%s T5s
and an carried off against their will Inc