People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1895 — To the Clergy. [ARTICLE]

To the Clergy.

Worthy divines of America, once you raised your voices in God's consecrated temple for the liberation of an enslaved race; it was because you felt and understood the iniquity of that terrible wrong; you had,to be slowly educated to the injustice of chattel slavery before you could realize its enormity; is it not possible that an equally great cause exists to-day for similar action and that you are lulled to acquiessence because of the long established custom, as was of black slavery? As you entreat the weary of heart to come to tee cross and. receive the bless ings of salvation through the Great Redeemer, so does the writer ask an infinite God to turn your noble minds to rightly know and understand the condition of your suffering brothers, ard know the cause of the destitution of those who labor as compared with the affluence of those who do not.