INCIDENTS #44 - ELIZABETH RUSSO
Subject: INCIDENTS #44
From: ELIZABETH RUSSO
Date: November 05, 1998

INCIDENTS AND CHARACTERS IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF METHODISM

By

The Reverend John Elmore DuBois

Edited by Elizabeth A. DuBois
(c) 1998  DuBois Publishing Co, Simsbury, Connecticut. All rights
reserved.

Fifteen
Ministry in the Black Belt Before and After The War

	When the mind of an old man starts back along the lines of memory and
begins to wake up one pleasant association after another, he is apt to
be garrulous in conversation and prolix in composition.

	Addison has well said, "Youth for pleasure, manhood for ambition and
old age for avarice." If he had used garrulity for "avarice," his
aphorism would have been quite as strong, and standing as I do at the
extreme verge of the last period, I could testify more freely of its
truth, while to readers of critical taste, my last number was doubtless
a practical illustration of the same fact.

	But if they had known the "black belt" of Alabama in its primeval
beauty and luxuriance , no apology would be necessary from me for the
space devoted to it in my last paper. But again, to the mission work. It
has been alleged by our brethren of the North, that during the days of
slavery, the moral and religious training of the Negro was neglected.
That this was true in some localities I do not pretend to deny; but that
it was sufficiently so to admit of being stated as a general truth, I do
deny; and having served the colored people in this missionary field of
the Alabama Conference for a number of years, I think entitles my
statement to some consideration.

[To be continued]

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