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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 2 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1 1 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 1 1 Browse Search
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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 8: the Liberator—1831. (search)
views of fasting and prayer, to which he frequently exhorted the colored people; and of the Sabbath and Sabbath-schools. He Lib. 1.73. urges colored parents, as they value the temporal and Lib. 1.115. eternal welfare of their children, to send them where they can obtain instruction on the Sabbath. If thou wert blotted out, our moral sun, he says in a sonnet to the Lib. 1.64. day, What a most conscientious and devout legalist I was when I wrote it, he writes to Oliver Johnson, May 25, 1874. In my blindness I adopted Dr. Beecher's preposterous figure of speech, as applied to the first day of the week, that the Sabbath is the moral sun of the universe, and so logically predicted that chaos would come again if it were blotted out—i.e., not observed in an orthodox fashion—a fashion, however, not according to Luther, Melanchthon, Calvin, or any of the great lights of the Reformation, of which fact I was then ignorant. Dr. Beecher's use of this figure, however, at Pittsburgh, in