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MONDAY MORNING MOMENTS July 06, 1998 Vol. III Number 29
In 1838, after as strong emancipation movement among blacks, slavery was abolished in Jamaica, to take effect on August 1. On the evening of the last day in July a large company of former slaves gathered on the beach for a solemn, yet joyous, occasion. A large mahogany coffin had been constructed and placed on the sand next to an accommodating hole in the beach. All evening the soon-to-be-emancipated slaves placed, with some ceremony, symbols of their enslavement. There were chains, leg-irons, whips, padlocks, and other similar symbols of slavery/ A few minutes before midnight came, the box was lowered into the hole in the beach. Pushing sand into the hole to cover the coffin, all joined their voices with one accord to sing, “Praise God from whom all blessings flow, praise him all creatures here below, praise him above ye heavenly host, praise Father Son, and Holy Ghost.” They were free from slavery. How much they were like Christians, who, through Christ’s death are free from their slavery to sin. And how like them are Christian, who discard those things which entangles, and shall be free then from the very reminder and presence of sin.
“Look at the Nations and watch - and be UTTERLY AMAZED. for I am going to do something in YOUR days that you would not believe even if you were told” Habakkuk 1:5
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