...Sarah Collins Fernandis Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 83 Easter Pictures 1 Fair Easter in time's cloistered gallery Are pictures rare and beautiful of thee, Soft and subdued by lenten thot and prayer, My chastened heart would con the lessons there. 2 Lo, Salem's "upper room...

...Sarah Collins Fernandis Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 99 To Mothers 1 The children this wide world over Turn for their soothing blest To mother; sob out small sorrows, Held close to her warm breast. 2 She kisses the smarting bruises, Smiles on the wee one fed; And kisses heal...

...Sarah Collins Fernandis Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 7 Your Little Deed of Uplift I Your little deed of uplift May set some fallen soul Upon a safer pathway Toward a higher goal. 2 Your little creed lived simply, In league with all divine, May, in the lives of many...

...Sarah Collins Fernandis Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 15 She Hath Done What She Could One tender scene stands out to me In that rich life at Galilee: Tired, throbbing feet, and ointment rare, And soothing touch of unbound hair; The "what she could, " a loving deed, That met...

...Sarah Collins Fernandis Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 10 Love's Service 1 Let men find service in life's humblest need, For in love's balance weighs the smallest deed; The hand of succor, lifting to its nest A fallen fledgling, follows love's behest As truly as when hastening...

...Sarah Collins Fernandis Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 46 Ye Who Have Passed I O ye who have taken your silent ways From out an abounding life Enriched by the memoried yesterdays Of struggle and toil and strife; 2 We who in our sorrow have watched you go At the gateway...

...Sarah Collins Fernandis Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 41 Life's Afterwhile I After the dark the dawning, After the wind the calm; After the fear the courage, After the hurt the balm. 2 After the doubt the trusting, After the tear the smile; Kindly the door swings outward...

...Sarah Collins Fernandis Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 75 Light 1 "God said, Let there be light: and there was light" O'er-mastering supreme chaotic night! And the cold, dark earth grew warm and rife With myriads of strange, primeval life! 2 0, light! Life's wonder-lamp...

...Sarah Collins Fernandis Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 77 Music 1 Under the toil and the striving, Under the sorrow and stings, Alway serene, aye persistent, Something in every heart sings. 2 And erst a grand oratorio Into life's harmony swells,Erst a song, plaintive...

...Sarah Collins Fernandis Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 78 Consummation 1 A dancing ray of sunlight, A child essays to clasp, And sighs with disappointment When it eludes his grasp. 2 For him a pearl's descendingA raindrop, lambent, round, Then-dire disintegrationIt spatters...

...Sarah Collins Fernandis Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 80 Christmas: The Vision Recurrent 1 Come short, weary days, and night hours long and drear. Anon, in the trend of the swift passing year, The vision, recurrent, of Christmas unfolds And fancy the sacred ensemble beholds...

...Sarah Collins Fernandis Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 79 The Christmas Spirit 1 The Christmas candles that we light, Reflections are of that star-glow In Bethlehem's skies long, long ago On that first holy Christmas night. 2 Our Christmas carols on the air Are echoes faint...

...Sarah Collins Fernandis Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 76 Life A warp ofjoy and a woof of sorrow, The sun to-day and a cloud to-morrow, And life the whole. Nor light nor shade, nor mirth nor mourningBlent in the web in a rare adorningCan we control. 2 A Master mind...

...Sarah Collins Fernandis Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 74 Our Colored Soldiery 1 They're marching, marching, marchingHear you the tramping feet On cool sequestered roadside And city's teeming street? 2 Freedom's insistent drum beat Has swung their souls in line...

.... Hamilton, Bishop Lucius H. Holsey, Rev. George Patterson McKinney, Sarah Collins Fernandis, Elder John Howardton Smith, Bishop Mary L. Tate, Bishop Mary F. L. Keith, Elder H. C.Jackson, and Elder S. R. Chambers are virtually faceless. Bishop Richard Allen and Bishop Charles Harrison Mason (both...

..., their names are Richard Allen, Joshua McCarter Simpson, Charles Price Jones, Charles Harrison Mason, F. M. Hamilton, Lucius H. Holse y, George Patterson McKinney, Sarah Collins Fernandis, John Howardton Smith, Mary L. Tate, Mary F. L. Keith , H. C. Jackson, S. R. Chambers, and Robert Nathaniel Dett. Richard...

... Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Index of Authors, Composers, and Sources Allen, Richard , 5 Chambers, S. R., 45 Dett, Robert Nathaniel, 36 Fernandis, Sarah Collins, 7, IO, 15, 41 , 46, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79,80,83,99 Hamilton, F. M., I, 2, 6, 9, 12, 13, 14, 17, 19, 25 , 26, 27...

..., 12 Martin, Sarah, 51 Martinez, Bob, 69 MC Hammer, 8, IO, 60-67; as sha- man, 62-63, 65-66, 67 MC Lyte, 34, 57 MC Shan, 16, 34 MC Supreme, 4 "Me So Horny," 78 media: and its influence on audi- ence behavior or attitudes, 71, 79; violence in the, 75 Melle Mel, 13, 32, 33 "The Message," 13-14, 30, 33-34...

... you. All We your children worship you God of our Ancestors, God of Abraham, God of Sarah. Leader We your children want to discover you in our lives today. All Discover you in our history Discover you in our culture Discover you in one another. Leader Your children want to worship you in spirit...

... in this magnificent listing we are brought face to face with a host of people-Abraham, Enoch, Sarah, Noah, Moses, and others, even a prostitute (Rahab) and an adulterer (David)-all who lived by faith. They teach us, these ancient and imperfect overcomers, that faith in God is the special prerogative of no one...