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    The Redemption of Freetown
    The Redemption of Freetown
    The Redemption of Freetown
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    The Redemption of Freetown

    By Charles M. Sheldon

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    The Redemption of Freetown is a novel by Charles M. Sheldon. It depicts the happenings of a small town called Freetown, where African American released slaves co-exist under Christian rule.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDigiCat
    Release dateMay 29, 2022
    ISBN8596547023203
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      The Redemption of Freetown - Charles M. Sheldon

      Charles M. Sheldon

      The Redemption of Freetown

      EAN 8596547023203

      DigiCat, 2022

      Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info

      Table of Contents

      INTRODUCTION

      CHAPTER I.

      THE PROBLEM OF FREETOWN.

      CHAPTER II.

      JUDGE VERNON'S TROUBLE.

      CHAPTER III.

      HOWARD DOUGLASS'S PLAN.

      CHAPTER IV.

      THE CARLTONS' TROUBLE.

      CHAPTER V.

      CALLERS AT MR. DOUGLASS'S.

      CHAPTER VI.

      SOME MOMENTOUS DECISIONS.

      CHAPTER VII.

      THE FREETOWN SETTLEMENT STARTED.

      CHAPTER VIII.

      FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER.

      Mr. Alfred Harris, member of the Associated Press Bureau, to Walter R. Stoddard, editor of The Boston Message :— Merton, Feb. 12, 1914.

      THE END.

      INTRODUCTION

      Table of Contents

      Th is little story was first read by me to my Young People's society of Christian Endeavor in the Central Church, Topeka, Kan., during the spring of 1898.

      There is nothing impossible in the story, which is largely founded on actual facts known to very many besides myself. What seems to be miraculous or impossible in the redemption of humanity seems so because too often the Christian disciple does not give himself for the solution of the human problem.

      This is the one great truth I have wished to impress by the telling of this history, which is partly true, and might easily be wholly so; the truth that it is God with us, Emmanuel, who is redeeming the world, and it must be ourselves, the Christ in us, with the unredeemed humanity near us, that must redeem it. The moment the churches, the Endeavor societies, the Christian disciples everywhere, put themselves into any unredeemed spot in any town or city or place, the miracle of redemption will begin.

      It is with the prayer that all who read this little story will give something of this redeeming love to a needy world that the book is sent out. There is the secret of the atonement in the three short words, "Who gave Himself."

      Charles M. Sheldon.

      CHAPTER I.

      THE PROBLEM OF FREETOWN.

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      It was very still in the district courtroom. The jury had just brought in a verdict of guilty, and the judge was about to pronounce the sentence.

      The room was filled with the usual crowd of spectators. The lawyers occupied the space railed off from the raised seats at the rear where the public was admitted. All whispers and noise on the part of witnesses, attorneys, and court officers had ceased, and every eye was on the man who had just been pronounced guilty.

      Prisoner at the bar, said Judge Vernon, leaning a little forward in his chair until his arm rested on the desk in front of him, have you anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced upon you?

      The prisoner was a young negro not more than twenty years old. He had been standing when the verdict of the jury was given. His hand rested on the back of a chair, and he faced the judge with a look of stolid, sullen defiance.

      I've got only this to say, judge. The shooting was accidental. If I'd had a fair trial, I'd been let off. But everything's been against me here.

      There was a pause while the man passed the back of his hand over his mouth and shifted his position nervously.

      Judge Vernon waited a moment.

      Is that all you have to say?

      That's all, unless—I think I ought to have another trial. I don't count this fair, judge.

      You have been fully and fairly tried, replied the judge firmly. Then, after a moment of silence, he continued: Prisoner at the bar, I sentence you to the penitentiary for twenty years. Bailiff, remove the prisoner. Call the next case.

      The prisoner made a movement as if he intended to utter a word, but his lawyer behind him pulled him down into a seat; the bailiff came to the little gate of the railing and beckoned to the prisoner, who was led out. The machinery of the court went on, the next case was called, and the usual stir of the courtroom rose again, in sharp contrast with the moment's intense stillness that had just preceded.

      The evening of that same day, as Judge Vernon sat down to dinner in his residence up on

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