"Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!"
"Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps the present hour Serves but to brighten all our future days."
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Source: John Brown (1862). “An exposition of the Epistle of ... Paul to the Hebrews, ed. by D. Smith”, p.69
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