Stronger Together

   America, you have lost your history, and have become so undereducated you do not realize the great danger you now face.
   One danger of our ignorance is found in Ferguson, Missouri, and spreading across our nation.
   The divisions between Black and White are widening because we have forgotten the impassioned cooperation of the Black and White to free fellow countrymen, women, and children from the cruel and self-serving trade and ownership of human beings in the 1700-1800's.
   The stories not only tell of people sacrificing enormous portions of their lives, but also have one common denominator that we in America are letting slide away from our schools, society, and government, and that is Jesus Christ.  While some slave owners claimed to be Christian, their lives tell an entirely different reality, and distort the image of our Great and Wonderful God that prompted the abolitionists to work so tirelessly to give these Americans the fresh air of freedom!

   A man named Vestal Coffin was one of thousands of heroes who worked many years to help those who were enslaved to reach free states or Canada. Mr. Coffin organized an Underground Railroad station in North Carolina in 1819; his young teenage son, Addison, and a cousin, Levi, risked their lives repeatedly to help those who were willing to try and reach freedom.

   William Lloyd Garrison was editor of ''The Liberator'', an anti-slavery newspaper which ran from 1831 to 1865, here is an excerpt from his first issue...

     ''I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen;—but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest—I will not equivocate—I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single inch—AND I WILL BE HEARD. The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal, and to hasten the resurrection of the dead.''
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   At least once he escaped being hung by a pro-slavery mob, and he continued to risk his life daily to help free people from the satanic business of slavery.

   There are hundreds, if not thousands, of stories to be set before the eyes of the America public and bring healing to our land; through Jesus Christ, and through the stories of His liberating Hand!