A major 19th-century reformer and intellectual, Alexander Crummell was the first black American to receive a degree from Cambridge University. After working in Liberia, he founded the American Negro ...Academy. This volume of selected writings by Crummell aims to prompt a re-evaluation of his work.
Destiny and Race Moses, Wilson J; Crummell, Alexander
1992
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A major 19th-century reformer and intellectual, Alexander Crummell was the first black American to receive a degree from Cambridge University. After working in Liberia, he founded the American Negro ...Academy. This volume of selected writings by Crummell aims to prompt a re-evaluation of his work.
“No man cared for my soul.” This is the language of extreme desolateness, the utterance of absolute and utter wretchedness. No terms could be coined, and no expression used, more indicative of misery ...and forlornness. There might be large mental attainment and abundant intellectualresources. There might be a fullness of physical vigor, of temporal comfort, and earthly prosperity and satisfaction. But if with these there should be the absence of spiritual enlightenment, and the lack of divine grace—if the soul should be conscious of its poverty and should know its need; and there should be no quarter to which
At the request of the rector, wardens, and vestry of St. Andrew’s Church, I have come down here to lay the corner stone of their church. The ceremony took place last Thursday, the 24th.
Failing to ...secure a direct conveyance by sea, I took the overland route; and thus have seen for the first time a few things, and met with some incidents which, perhaps, may interest you.
I left Monrovia on the 29th, and paddled up the Messurado river, some eighteen miles to its head. For nearly half its length it is quite a wide river, but gradually narrows
Mr. Elizur Wright
Sir
Between three and four years since, when I was at your office in Nassau Street, you sent me to your house in Grant St with a rocking chair, which I broke by driving fast. When ...enquired of by you I told you something different—a palpable falsehood; which, when you afterward doubted, I still held to.
Since I have been a member of Oneida Institute I have made a profession of Religion—about two years ago. Perhaps you may think I have held on to this sin; —afraid to confess it. Not at all. I never
The plough, in eastern countries, such as India and Persia and Egypt, is a very light and trifling thing. So small an instrument is it that a little boy can easily carry it. When used in ploughing it ...only scratches the surface of the earth. You can judge of its littleness by the command of God—“beat your ploughshares into swords.” It was so small a thing that it could easily be turned into an instrument of warfare. In using such an instrument it was necessary, as is evident, to use care and caution: for it could easily be broken
It was a little child, nay, a feeble, helpless infant, to Whom all this reverence and devotion were given. And it is, by imagination, the same little babe that all Christendom to-day turns back to ...and approaches with joy, and salutations, and profoundest worship. The point of interest in this little child is not simply that its body was small and weak, but that His person, diminutive as it was, was the germ of wondrous power, was the fountain-head of a world-wide ocean, was the root of prodigious reality which reaches from time over into deepest eternity.
It is one
