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Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Tom read ‘come unto Me, all ye that labor, and I shall give you rest,’
‘thems good enough words,’ said the woman; ‘who says ‘em?’
‘The Lord,’ said Tom.
‘I jest wish I knew where to find him,’ said the woman. ‘I would go… if I knew where the Lord was.’
‘He’s here, He’s everywhere,’ said Tom.
“Lor, you ain’t gwine make me believe dat ar! I know the Lord ain’t here!’ said the woman.
When I first read this book, as a fourteen year old, I found it to be a moving story. Reading it now, years later, I find that each line burns with Ms. Stowe’s passionate desire to wake a sleeping country from its brutal indifference and terrible, habitual oppression; to shake, disturb and change it. She accomplished her goal in her time: her book affected many, many people, and now it stands, a monument, a testimony and a brutal reminder of the depravity mankind will sink to when they turn away from God.
Man is created below God and the angels, only a higher goodness could move and create beauty in man’s night of destruction. Evangeline, the angel, weeps and departs, but God stays, walking with His people, hurting with them even as they are brought down beneath the abuse of free will displayed by their fellow man. Even at the darkest, God was there.
And God is here. The world will always have pain, suffering, and cruelty, but there is One whom we are called to imitate whose mission it is to free the captive and heal the broken hearted. Jesus is Lord, and He is with us.
“When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee, and the rivers, they shall not overflow thee; when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee; for I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Savior.”
‘thems good enough words,’ said the woman; ‘who says ‘em?’
‘The Lord,’ said Tom.
‘I jest wish I knew where to find him,’ said the woman. ‘I would go… if I knew where the Lord was.’
‘He’s here, He’s everywhere,’ said Tom.
“Lor, you ain’t gwine make me believe dat ar! I know the Lord ain’t here!’ said the woman.
When I first read this book, as a fourteen year old, I found it to be a moving story. Reading it now, years later, I find that each line burns with Ms. Stowe’s passionate desire to wake a sleeping country from its brutal indifference and terrible, habitual oppression; to shake, disturb and change it. She accomplished her goal in her time: her book affected many, many people, and now it stands, a monument, a testimony and a brutal reminder of the depravity mankind will sink to when they turn away from God.
Man is created below God and the angels, only a higher goodness could move and create beauty in man’s night of destruction. Evangeline, the angel, weeps and departs, but God stays, walking with His people, hurting with them even as they are brought down beneath the abuse of free will displayed by their fellow man. Even at the darkest, God was there.
And God is here. The world will always have pain, suffering, and cruelty, but there is One whom we are called to imitate whose mission it is to free the captive and heal the broken hearted. Jesus is Lord, and He is with us.
“When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee, and the rivers, they shall not overflow thee; when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee; for I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Savior.”