Personal reminiscences of the anti-slavery and other reforms and reformers - Hardcover

Powell, Aaron M

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0837146127 ISBN 13: 9780837146126

Publisher: Negro Universities Press, 1970

Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1899 Excerpt: ... IN MEMORIAM. With the message of assured faith in the soul's continued life, which was left by Lydia Maria Child for record upon her tombstone, my brother laid down his pen, for a temporary absence in Philadelphia, to attend the Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, held at Fifteenth and Race Streets. They were the last words of his writing in this volume. If he had been permitted to choose "last words"--words to be imprinted with the indelible touch that only death's seal can give, perhaps there are no words that could have spoken more directly to the hearts of those sore-stricken by his departure. For they know that for him to "truly live " is to pour out his heart of love, not only upon those nearest and dearest to him, but upon the work also to which he had felt himself called. They may well believe that, if it be given to the liberated spirit not only to enter into the joys of the faithful, but to be faithful still to all its past, then he will still minister to his own, and will labor on in the fields where laborers are few. On the morning of Seventh day, Fifth month, 13, 1899, with his wife, Anna Rice Powell, he left his home in Plainfield, N. J., and arrived in Philadelphia in time for a part only of the morning session of the meeting of Ministers and Elders. The intermission between the morning and the afternoon sessions, was spent in happy intercourse with their sister, planning, among other things, for a quiet opportunity to read together the finished chapters of the "Reminiscences." He remarked " I shall have to go slowly this week;" and yet, he seemed not less vigorous than at any time during the last two years--years really of unacknowledged invalidism. When it was time for the afternoon session to begin, they returned to the mee...

About this edition

• Publisher: Negro Universities Press
• Publication date: 1970
• ISBN 10: 0837146127
• ISBN 13: 9780837146126
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 279