American - Poet | 1711 - 1806
If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.
Jupiter Hammon
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If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth.
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Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.
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That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
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The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.
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The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.
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There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.
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Those of you who can read I must beg you to read the Bible, and whenever you can get time, study the Bible, and if you can get no other time, spare some of your time from sleep, and learn what the mind and will of God is.
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We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business.
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We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.
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When I was at Hartford in Connecticut, where I lived during the war, I published several pieces which were well received, not only by those of my own colour, but by a number of the white people, who thought they might do good among their servants.
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You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them.
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