et your liberty. It says there, 'only 40 miles to Liberty.' Now,
why don't you take that road and go there?" The old man's countenance
changed, and he said, "Oh, young massa, that is all a sham. If the post
pointed out the road to the liberty that God gives, we might try it.
There could be no sham in that." My friend said he had never heard
anything more eloquent from the lips of a preacher. God wants all his
sons to have liberty.

"Liberty Now and Forever."

When Miss Smiley went down South to teach, she went to a hotel and found
everything covered with dirt. The tables were dirty, dishes dirty, beds
were dirty. So she called an old colored woman who was in the house, and
said, "Now you know that the Northern people set you at liberty. I came
from the North and I don't like dirt, so I want you to clean the house."
The old colored woman set to work, and it seemed as if she did more work
in that half day than she had done in a month before. When the lady got
back the colored woman came to her and said, "Now, is I free or ben't I
not? When I go to my old massa he says I ain't free, and when I go to my
own people they say I is, and I don't know whether I'm free or not. Some
people told me Abraham Lincoln signed a proclamation, but massa says he
didn't; he hadn't any right to." So Christian people go along, not
knowing whether they are free or not. Why, when they have the Spirit
they are as free as air. Christ came for that. He didn't come to set us
free and then leave us in servitude. He came to give us liberty now and
forever.

Out of Libby Prison.

There was a story told me while I was in Philadelphia, by Capt.
Trumbull. He said when he was in Libby prison the news came that his
wife was in Washington, and his little child was dying: and the next
news that came was that his child was dead, and the mother remained in
Washington in hopes that her husband could come with her and take that
child off to New England and bury it; but that was the last he heard.
One day the news came into the prison that there was a boat up from City
Point, and there were over nine hundred men in the prison rejoicing at
once. They expected to get good news. Then came the news that there was
only one man in that whole number that was to be let go, and they all
began to say, "Who is it?" It was some one who had some influential
friend at Washington that had persuaded the government to take an
interest in him and get him out. The whole