In
that darkest hours of slavery, just before the dawn of freedom, how dreary must the future have seemed to many a negro mother, as she sat in the stillness crooning a cheerless song to her drowsy babe! The tears must have often dimmed her eyes, as she thought of the life of bondage into which her child had come, with no prospect of happiness before it, unless its owners should chance to be kind-hearted.
The
following is a copy of the most memorable judicial sentence which has ever been pronounced in the annals of the world—that of the death sentence against the Saviour, with remarks which Le Droit has collected, and the knowledge of which must be interesting in the highest degree to every Christian.
Several months ago I received a telegram from a distant part of this State to treat a two-year-old baby for flux, and just one hour after I had received the telegram the baby was healed and at her play.
with contributions from Perlita Wolff, Minnie M. Stoddard, Sherman Wilcox, Susan W. Whitelock, Agga M. Lacy, Barbara M. Prince, J. G. L., Edmund C. Moulton
Beloved Mother
:— Since it was my privilege to attend that ne'er to be forgotten Class of January, 1899, at the Mother Church in Boston, I have desired to express my gratitude for the blessings received.
The following letter was received by a Scientist from the head of a prominent institution in the South for the education of colored people, the writer of the letter being himself a colored man.
