Dear
friends, if you have time, please pray for these members of the Southern family
on the day they reposed. Many thanks.
But
one may ask: ‘What good does it do to
pray for the departed?’ An answer is
offered here: https://orthochristian.com/130608.html
May
1st
Harry
Hosier and George Liele. (The exact dates of their deaths are not recorded, so
the approximation of 1 May is used instead.
Thanks to Mr William Federer for mentioning them in one of his history posts.)
Harry
Hosier was a slave, born in North Carolina, folks reckon, and after gaining his
freedom he became a very talented preacher who rode with Bishop Francis Asbury
on his circuits.
George
Liele was a slave from Georgia who became a fruitful missionary in Jamaica upon
gaining his freedom.
May
6th
Judah
P. Benjamin
A
Louisiana lawyer and senator, and later Secretary of State for the Confederacy. He went through hard times with the grace
characteristic of the South.
He
may have had a hand in planting States’ Rights ideas into the Canadian
constitution from his time as a lawyer in England.
May
10th
Gen
Thomas J. ‘Stonewall’ Jackson
One
of the South’s finest men.
May
10th
John
Gould Fletcher
A
Pulitzer Prize winning writer. A
craftsman of both poetry and prose.
May
11th
Roger
Busbice (2019)
A
man from our own time, but a man nevertheless dedicated to Dixie’s well-being. He was a kind mentor to those who asked him
for help in learning about Southern ways.
May
12th
Gen
J. E. B. Stuart
One
of the South’s best cavalry commanders.
May
25th
Rev
Benjamin Morgan Palmer
An
influential pastor in New Orleans both behind and away from the pulpit.
May
25th
George
Garrett
Virginia’s
Poet Laureate from 2004-6, amongst many other literary achievements.
May
26th
Eliza
Lucas Pinckney
An
enterprising matron in the worlds of business and art.
--
Holy
Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema
to the Union!
Thank you for this post. For more on Harry Hosier, please visit the website for the book series, The Asbury Triptych, at www.francisasburytriptych.com.
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