| American periodicals - 1894 - 856 pages
...habit of giving thanks in meeting on the next Sunday after the arrival of a slaver, " that a gracious, overruling Providence had been pleased to bring to...to enjoy the blessings of a Gospel dispensation." But what could be said to such hypocritical self-deceivers by ministers who themselves were slave-owners... | |
| Benson John Lossing - United States - 1872 - 758 pages
...returned thanks on the Sunday following the arrival uf a slaver in (he harbor ->f Newport, " that an overruling Providence had been pleased to bring to...freedom another cargo of benighted heathen, to enjoy the blessing of a Gospel dispensation." trades, for Stothard painted " the voyage of the Sable Venus from... | |
| American Antiquarian Society - United States - 1888 - 566 pages
...with uniform success, always returned thanks on the Sunday after a slaver arrived in Newport, "that an overruling Providence had been pleased to bring to...land of freedom another cargo of benighted heathen to en joy the blessing of a Gospel dispensation."1 This "elder'' has gone the way of other bigoted gospellers.... | |
| American Antiquarian Society - United States - 1889 - 546 pages
...with uniform success, always returned thanks on the Sunday after a slaver arrived in Newport, "that an overruling Providence had been pleased to bring to...freedom another cargo of benighted heathen to enjoy the blessing of a Gospel dispensation." i This "elder" has gone the way of other bigoted gospellers. The... | |
| William Babcock Weeden - Communities - 1890 - 542 pages
...uniform success, always returned thanks, on the Sunday after a slaver arrived in Newport, " that an overruling Providence had been pleased to bring to...freedom another cargo of benighted heathen, to enjoy the blessing of a Gospel dispensation." 2 This 1 MS. LetterĀ». a Am. Hilt. Rec., i. 312. " elder " has... | |
| Robert Lowry, William H. McCardle - Mississippi - 1891 - 708 pages
...habit of returning thanks, the first Sunday after the arrival of his slave ship in Newport, "that an overruling Providence had been pleased to bring to...to enjoy the blessings of a gospel dispensation." In the African slave trade, as carried on by the early Puritans, rum was a prime factor, and Mr. Weeden... | |
| History - 1892 - 530 pages
...uniform success, always returned thanks on the Sunday after a " slaver " arrived in Newport, " that an over-ruling Providence had been pleased to bring to...freedom another cargo of benighted heathen to enjoy the blessing of a gospel dispensation." That was in the last century; but well into this the trade was... | |
| History - 1892 - 530 pages
...uniform success, always returned thanks on the Sunday after a "slaver" arrived in Newport, "that an over-ruling Providence had been pleased to bring to...freedom another cargo of benighted heathen to enjoy the blessing of a gospel dispensation." That was in the last century ; but well into this the trade was... | |
| Church history - 1893 - 816 pages
...Sewall's day ; as would also "the bill" of thanks put up by "an elder" who was in the trade, " that an over-ruling Providence had been pleased to bring to...to enjoy the blessings of a Gospel dispensation." ' Sewall says that he had " been much and long dissatisfied with the trade of fetching Negroes from... | |
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