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" Happily for him and the cause of religion, his honest countenance and earnest pleadings were soon powerfully seconded by the fruits of his labors. One after another began to suspect their servants of attending his preaching, not because they were made... "
The Southern Workman - Page 691
1915
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De Bow's Review, Volume 26

James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1859 - 752 pages
...appointments, so that when they went to work their will upon him, he was preaching somewhere else. * * * Happily for him, and the cause of religion, his honest...negroes, too, began to be seen, particularly as regarded their habits on Sunday, and drunkenness. And it was not long before the mob was called off, by a change...
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De Bow's Review and Industrial Resources, Statistics, Etc ..., Volume 26

James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1859 - 740 pages
...they went to work their will upon him, he was preaching somewhere else. * * * Happily for him, nnd the cause of religion, his honest countenance and...negroes, too, began to be seen, particularly as regarded their habits on Sunday, and drunkenness. And it was not long before the mob was called off, by a change...
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A Compendious History of American Methodism: Abridged from the Author's ...

Abel Stevens - 1867 - 642 pages
...be thought proper to prove his inoffensiveness; anything, so that he might but be allowed to preach. Happily for him and the cause of religion, his honest...negroes, too, began to be seen, particularly as regarded their habits on Sunday, and drunkenness; and it was not long before the mob was called off by a change...
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A Compendious History of American Methodism

Abel Stevens - 1885 - 576 pages
...thought proper to prove his inofl'cnsivencss ; anything, so that he might but be allowed to preach. Happily for him and the cause of religion, his honest...were soon powerfully seconded by the fruits of his labours. One after another began to suspect their servants of attending his preaching, not because...
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Life of William Capers, D. D., One of the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal ...

Bp. William May Wightman - 1902 - 524 pages
...thought proper to prove his inoffeusiveness ; any thing, so that he might but be allowed to preach. Happily for him and the cause of religion, his honest...negroes, too, began to be seen, particularly as regarded their habits on Sunday, and drunkenness. And it was not long before the mob was called off by a change...
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The Negro from Africa to America

Willis Duke Weatherford - 1924 - 498 pages
...thought proper to prove his inoff ensiveness ; anything, so that he might but be allowed to preach. Happily for him and the cause of religion, his honest...negroes, too, began to be seen, particularly as regarded their habits on Sunday, and drunkenness. And it was not long before the mob was called off by a change...
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Unification of a Slave State: The Rise of the Planter Class in the South ...

Rachel N. Klein - 1992 - 348 pages
...planters, but earlier he had been forced to elude "the hands of the mob." Only gradually had planters begun "to suspect their servants of attending his preaching...because they were made worse, but wonderfully better." It was, according to Capers, "not long before the mob was called off by a change in the current of...
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Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770-1810

Cynthia Lynn Lyerly - 1998 - 262 pages
...dress proper for negroes in general." Also according to Capers, whites stopped persecuting Evans when "One after another began to suspect their servants...because they were made worse, but wonderfully better." Proof of this, Capers said, could be seen by Fayetteville blacks' new respect for the Sabbath and habits...
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