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to its completion while our day lasts, and our sun of 

 life is in the sky, or we shall be overtaken by the 

 darkness before our task is done. But with the great 

 Euler of the universe, there is no mornin', and no 

 night; there is no yesterday, nor to-morrow. With 

 Him all time is present, an everlastin' and eternal 

 NOW. And whether He puts forth his arm, and hurls 

 things with the rush of the tempest, or leaves them to 

 the silent but sure process of ages, it is all the same. 

 You and I, of course, will not live to see it, nor will 

 any that can trace us out as among their forefathers, 

 see it ; but I believe that away off in the long future, 

 may be hundreds and hundreds of years to come, 

 Africa will be made up of great nations of colored 

 people, all civilized and Christianized, havin' great 

 navies and merchant ships visitin' all parts of the 

 world, and factories, and machine shops, and great 

 cities, and broad farms, and abundance of wealth, and 

 worshippin' God accordin' to the Bible. And I be- 

 lieve, too, that some portion of what is now indepen- 

 dent States of this Union, and the islands of the Mexi 

 can Gulf, will be other independent and free nations 

 of civilized and Christianized colored people ; and all 

 this mighty change will grow out of this great wicked- 



