People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1897 — Calls Poverty Hell. [ARTICLE]

Calls Poverty Hell.

Rev. A. M. Hyde of the Congregational cbnrch of Greenville, Mich., has created a sensation by preaching from the topic, ‘ ‘Fred Douglass, the Man From Rell. ’ ’ He said that Douglass, like many of the greatest men, was born in hell and afterward raised to positions of honor. He said, “Any man is born in hell who is reared in poverty and want, with no bed bat a handle of straw, half starved, half olothed and finally kicked into the street to earn a living in early childhood. Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.