[Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler by Pardee Butler]@TWC D-Link bookPersonal Recollections of Pardee Butler CHAPTER VI 10/11
When D. S.Burnett afterwards held a protracted meeting at this place, it was the songs of Sister Humber and Stephen Sales, as much as the preaching of D.S.Burnett, that made the meeting a wonderful success, and one long to be remembered.Bro.Humber and Bro.
Young were slave-holders. Bro.
Humber was also an emancipationist in his views of slave-holding, and often said that if a position could be secured suitable for emancipated slaves he would gladly set his slaves free.
When at last they were made free by the results of the war, and went to Leavenworth to live, it was always a burden on Bro.
Humber's heart to watch over them, and try and save them from the temptations that were laid for their feet in that wicked city. It will be readily seen that no scandal would be created in Atchison by organizing a church at Mt.
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