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] ==== SCROOTS Mailing List ==== Go To: #, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, Main |