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of our race, I bid you persevere in the well-begun Avork,
and the ultimate result Avill be you shall have reared
to your memory a monument broader than the pyra¬
mids of Egypt, and whose toAvering summit will reach
the blue A'ault of heaven.
J. J. Holland, B. D., Pulaski, Tenn.
Dear Dr. Taylor,—Your book of "Plantation Mel¬
odies" meets my hearty approA-al; the chastcness of
its diction, the variety of its selections, and the SAveet-
ncss of the tunes should make it a pleasant visitor
to every family, Sabbath-school, and Church in the
land.
Rev. C. R. Green, P. C. A. 91. E. Church, Ironton,
Ohio.
I have heard and indorse Dr. Taylor's views con¬
cerning the preserA'ation of the sacred melodies of the
colored people. His book contains many of them,
both of those they originated and those Avhich they
appropriated. It can not fail in the accomplishment
of great good. It should be in every family and
Church.
Rev. Joseph Courtney, P. C.Scott 1*1. E. Church.
Maysa'ille, Ky., July 14, 1882.
Nature sends forth her God-given poAvers, Avhich is
convincing the world that there is a Creator. The hu¬
man family, more or less, especially in America, had
and now has in a great many instances, peculiar meth¬
ods of expressing their reverence for God. This pe¬
culiar method Avas practiced more generally among the
colored people in their plantation rudeness ; though
not able to read, yet they served God in the way they
best knew Iioav. That way avhk principally by sinning.
Singing is a birthright inherited mure or less by all na-
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