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of a uchool-inirtrm-. To thin tempatalion of the devil I made no answer ; but just outside lt;if the door beyond my berth, which was the last in the cabin, a black woman,whose color kejH her outside in this worldLwas slowly spelling over to herself,in a low voice, part of a Bible chapter. 1 listened intently—for my Bible had remained unread—and,'word by word, “with stammer* inn hp* uk! another tongue,” 1 heard thesewords: “thigh* not Christ to have suffered?”She pausea there—to rest, perhaps; hut, though she resumed the reading, I heard no ■• more. - I waa silenced by that one sentence— ought He to have suffered!—suffered for reruns of good—suffered alone, Uiat no man hereafter need so suffer^—and ought I not to wiffer?—l, whose life was stained with selfish* jter*, murmuring, diacoutent.- 1 ?as like a ehamed * child. ' I woke at morning rested and refreshed, and, after dressing, made my way to the stern again, for we were nearing New York, and 1 wanted to keep in some juiet, out-of-the-way place till the boat was somewhat cleared, and the porter at leisure to j ake iny trunk over to the Amboy boat, where 1 was to get it checked for l’oxnptou. Pres-
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Cincinnati Weekly Chronicle
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Wed, Dec 15, 1869
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