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Updated: May 5, 2025
A poor, overworked Christian negro, a slave in the tavern, hearing the sobbing of Robert Utie and aware that one of the duellists occupied that room, lifted the latch, and wakened the wretched boy from his remorse. "Young moss," he said, "doan you fight no juels! Oh! doan do it, for de bressed Lord's sake! It's nuffin but pride and sin. Yo's only a pore, spilt boy, but you got a soul, young moss!
I mean when you die, cook. It's an awful question. Now what's your answer?" "When dis old brack man dies," said the negro slowly, changing his whole air and demeanor, "he hisself won't go nowhere; but some bressed angel will come and fetch him." "Fetch him? How? In a coach and four, as they fetched Elijah? And fetch him where?"
"It's me, Marse Ollie." "You! Malachi!" "Yassir, I'se been a-followin' ye all de mawnin'; I see 'em tryin' to kill ye an' I tried to git to ye. I kin git through yer needn't help me," and he squeezed himself under the raised sash. "Malachi like de snake crawl through anywheres. An' ye ain't hurted?" he asked when he was inside. "De bressed Lord, ain't dat good!
'Tis de yoke de Heavenly Massa puts on yer neck, and ye can't take it off nohow till he ondoes it hissef wid his own hand. Ye mus' b'ar it, and say, De will ob de bressed Lord be done." But, trying as this separation was, it proved to be the first link in that chain of loving-kindnesses by which this little slave-child was to be drawn towards God.
Chloe was much surprised, for Elsie had never been cowardly. "'Deed I won't, darling" she answered, caressing the shining hair, and softly rounded cheek. "But what my bressed chile 'fraid of?" "Mr. Arthur, mammy," Elsie answered scarcely above her breath. "He was in here a moment since, and if I were alone again he might come back."
The old woman, who loved children so dearly and was so kind to them, looked at one of her older grandsons, Elias, and ordered him to "get de boxwagon to take dis bressed baby home in."
"Darlin'," said Chloe, earnestly, "didn't you read to your ole mammy dis very morning dese bressed words: 'If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, an' de other: 'If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins. Go to de dear, bressed Lord Jesus, darlin', an' ax Him to forgive you, an' I knows He will."
I thanks my 'Vine Marster dat my sponsors in baptism named me arter de bressed an' holy S'int Jane who has 'stained an' s'ported me all my days; an' 'ill detect now, dough you do try to break my poor ole heart long wid onkindness at my ole ages o' life!
"'We'm all rebels to de bressed God. His Grace alone can sab us, said my wife, and she sung from dat good hymn "'Tis God alone can gib De bliss for which we sigh. "'Susan Matildar, bring your Bible and read some. While she said dis, de poor young man's eyes got full ob tears. "'Oh, my poor moder! how she used to read to me from dat book, and how I've neglected it, said he.
"No, chile, no; de miseries am all gone an' I's mighty comfor'able, bery happy, too, hearin' de soun' ob de chariot-wheels and tinking I's soon be in de bressed lan' whar de miseries an' de sins am all done gone foreber; an' whar ole Uncle Joe an' de bressed Master is waitin' to 'ceive me wid songs ob joy and gladness."
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