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Excerpt from Anti-Slavery and Other Memories of Old Richmond Kirkworth: A Heterogeny of Abstracts and Outlines in Four Parts
By some such jerky lightning-flashes we have a spotty knowledge of human history, and on this we base our prejudices, our hates, and our narrow loyalties. How long the theological sophisticates have been whis pering of the Genesis seven days of creation and the Babylonian seven tablets of creation. We are not even sure there are seven of those tablets. So badly are they broken, and under rigid examination any other resem blance comes near to breaking. A more striking parallel may be drawn between Genesis and the stony tablets of geological science, and this leads us into Part I of the present work, which is taken from a former treatise dedicated to Marion P. Martin, a Baptist teacher who sleeps in Old Rich mond kirkyard. Important sources were those strong-faithed Covenanter sons, Hugh Miller, the Scotch geologist and David Nelson, the Tennessee born physician, minister, educator, and anti - slavery worker. Old Rich mond, of Covenanter faith, had its own anti-slavery pastors who furnish much of the material for Part II. The original church, a sort of Stoke Pogis, was the older sister of Hopewell, or Old Stone Church the West minster Abbey of the higher regions of the state. The first cemetery holds a record number of Revolutionary and Indian fighters; in the latter is the more distinguished leader under whom some of them fought, and who after the challenge in Part III figures in Part IV. He it was who gave his last earthly residence an Indian name supposed to signify. Place of the Sunlight of God. Coincidentally, a 1782 Spanish half-real, once current, found near Old Richmond cemetery shortly before the Argo nova appeared, gives us a good starter for a chronology.
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