The Slave Martyr | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 8, 1864

The Slave Martyr.

[Bro. White: The following I copied and offer for the Review from the Tract Journal. S. Ross.]

Recently a colored preacher in the city of Boston, discoursing on the resurrection, and those who were waiting for its morning glory, related the following touching fact. A pious female slave, who would go to the place of prayer and live for Christ always, came under the lash of her brutal master, who declared that he would whip her Jesus out of her. The scourging was repeated till the young martyr lay gasping in death. The master inquired if she was cured of her love of Christ. Oh, massa, she replied, you haven't touched him yet, you haven't come near him at all; and then she died. The earnest preacher then exclaimed, And she, too, is waiting for the resurrection.

Has not he who was scourged that he might sympathize with his scarred people arisen even now to vindicate them and avenge their blood, demanding stripe for stripe, and wasting the treasures of oppression. Let the church discern God's hand and say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thy heritage to reproach while they do work meet for repentance.