Frederick Douglass, the Orator - Monroe County Library System

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Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS. 267 " That is a sentence for all reformers. There is no need to fear or falter if you are one with God and your cause is right. Frederick Douglass spoke those words. Those eyes that you have often looked into are now sightless, and that voice that has stirred the deepest and best sentiments within you is now silent. He has come home." By request Mr. George W Walton sang an adaptation of " Hide Thou Me." This was Mr. Douglass' favorite hymn. The other selections rendered were," Lead, Kindly Light," and "Gathering Home." The music was under the direction of George W- Walton and Frank N. Mandeville. INVOCATION OF REV. DR. STEBBINS. The final prayer and benediction were pronounced by Rev. Dr. H. H. Stebbins, of the Central Church. He said: — "Almighty God, who hast been our dwelling place in all generations, in whose hand are our lives, who hast appointed the bound of our habitation, we are here reverently and humbly to worship Thee, to acknowledge the benefits with which every day is loaded, to confess our manifold unworthiness, to supplicate Thy continued favor, and especially to bow submissively before that divine decree that has removed from our nation one of its most distinguished citizens.
Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection 268 LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS. " We bless Thee for the man. We bless Thee, above the color of his face and the bondage of his earlier years, that with such scant opportunity, that throughout the severe hardship, the extreme peril, the violent prejudice, and the bitter persecution to which he was exposed, he was and remained the man. " We bless Thee for the divinely implanted instinct of freedom that could never essentially make him a slave to any man. We bless Thee for the character he developed, for his steadfast devotion to his race, for the great ideas that stirred him, for the honest heart, out of the abundance of which he spoke; for his fidelity to conviction, for his steadfastness, and for his ready and active sympathy; and we bless Thee for the effective pen and the eloquent tongue that gave such brave expression to what was in him. We bless Thee, most of all, for his faith in God, a faith that wrought by love, that purified the heart, and that stimulated to manifold endeavor. We bless Thee that between the birth of the man and the death of the man there lie so many fruitful years. We bless Thee for the brave fight he fought, for the course he so nobly finished, and for the faith he kept. Surely a crown of life has been awaiting him, and now he wears it. Surely he has been welcomed into the higher life with the greeting, * Well done, good
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