Trial and Triumph

his mind, when a knock was heard at his door, and he s

the world use you? Everyt

. I have lost

e perfectly satisfied with you, and I thought that you were quite a

ugh the meannes

Superintendent of

ugh him that I lo

d you have done

r had an unpleasant wor

why he should have used any influen

it, and I hope to see the day when I will be even with him," said

e? Perhaps you gave some of them offence through

moments after he was in conversation with Mr. Hazleton. He asked him, 'if he employed a nigger for a cashier?' He replied, 'Of course not.' 'Well,' he said, 'you have one now.' After that they came down to the desk where I was casting up my accounts and Mr. Mahler asked, 'Is

Mr. Hazl

hat afternoon I lost my place. Mr. Hazleton said to me when the store was about to close, that he had no further use for me. Not discouraged, I found

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know the antecedents of my family I did not see fit to thrust them gratuitously upon him. You know the hard struggle my poor mother has had to get along, how the saloon has cursed and darkened our home and I was glad to get anything to do by which I could honestly earn a dollar and help her

lmly, "that it was a hard thing to be treated so for a cause over which yo

d to have reached me out a helping hand and hailed my return to a life of honest industry as a blessed crowning of their labors of love; while I, who am neither a pauper nor felon, am turned from place after pla

out betraying your origin; you cannot visit her openly and crown her with the respect she so well deserves without divulging the secret of your birth; and Charley, by doing so I do not think it possible that however rich or strong or influential you may be as a white man, that you can be as noble and as true a man as you will be if you stand in your lot without compromise or concealment,

e these people Christians who open the doors of charitable institutions to sinners who are white and close them against the same class who are black? I do not call such people good patriots, le

h is broad enough to float over the wide world with all its sin and misery, has been drenched with the blood of persecution, trampled in the mire of slavery and stained by the dust of caste proscription; but I believe that men are beginning more fully to comprehend the claims of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I am not afraid of what men call infidelity. I hold the faith which I profess, to be too true, too sacred and precious to be disturbed by every wave of wind and doubt. A

t some of these white Christians do puzzle me awfully. Oh, I think that I w

h to face a vitiated public opinion, and rich enough to afford himself the luxury of a good c

give me any chance to get m

wo handles, and if you take it by the w

h is the right handle to th

ere is prejudice agains

eyes with sudden wonder. "What was it that dogged my steps and shu

whiter than several of Mr. Hazleton's clerks. Do you

was it

on as he found out that you were connected with that race, he had neither the manliness nor the moral courage to say, the boy is capable and efficient. I see no cause why he should be dismissed for the crimes of his white

st be the case w

such men. I have since

to pity in Mr. Hazleton,

f submission. Men fettered the slave and cramped their own souls, denied him knowledge and then darkened their own spiritual insight, and the Negro, poor and despised as he was, laid his hands upon American civi

s of sin t

e borders