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One of the visitors present at the late Liverpool Conference was a black preacher, a genuine Methodist, and a man overflowing with eloquence and humour. Ilis parents were slaves, who had escaped to Canada long before the civil war in America, so that he was born under the freedom of the British flag. He had been a soldier, and whilst fighting under General Grant he took part in some of the most deadly conflicts of the campaign, receiving several wounds. He subsequently became a Methodist preacher and a temperance worker, who has been welcomed in the the States and Canada, and recently in many English cities. He is known aa the Rev. John II. Hector, but more frequently as the “ Black Knight.” His stores of anecdote and happy repartee are very large, and seem to have beon well and wisely used. At the end of August last he preached in Wesley's Chapel in City Road, and, with a complexion black as midnight, ho gave out his text, 44 Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. He said he did not like people to be stiff in their religion; it seemed to him that such people had been praying the wrong prayer, and instead of praying, “ Wash me, they said 44 Starch me. But he moved his audience to tears as well as laughter, and the grand old chapel resounded with many hearty 44 Amens ” and 44 Hallelujahs.”In tdlA mirW. of danroainn anrl
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Sydney Methodist
Sydney, New South Wales, AU
Sat, Oct 17, 1896
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