{"id":31,"date":"2021-06-16T14:23:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T18:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/sketchesofsouthernlife\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=31"},"modified":"2022-02-01T11:23:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T16:23:55","slug":"church-building","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/sketchesofsouthernlife\/chapter\/church-building\/","title":{"raw":"Church Building","rendered":"Church Building"},"content":{"raw":"Uncle Jacob often told us,\r\nSince freedom blessed our race\r\nWe ought all to come together\r\nAnd build a meeting place.\r\n\r\nSo we pinched, and scraped, and spared,\r\nA little here and there:\r\nThough our wages was but scanty,\r\nThe church did get a share.\r\n\r\nAnd, when the house was finished,\r\nUncle Jacob came to pray;\r\nHe was looking mighty feeble,\r\nAnd his head was awful gray.\r\n\r\nBut his voice rang like a trumpet;\r\nHis eyes looked bright and young;\r\nAnd it seemed a mighty power\r\nWas resting on his tongue.\r\n\r\nAnd he gave us all his blessing\u2014\r\n'Twas parting words he said,\r\nFor soon we got the message\r\nThe dear old man was dead.\r\n\r\nBut I believe he's in the kingdom,\r\nFor when we shook his hand\r\nHe said, \"Children, you must meet me\r\nRight in the promised land;\r\n\r\n\"For when I'm done a moiling\r\nAnd toiling here below,\r\nThrough the gate into the city\r\nStraightway I hope to go.\"","rendered":"<p>Uncle Jacob often told us,<br \/>\nSince freedom blessed our race<br \/>\nWe ought all to come together<br \/>\nAnd build a meeting place.<\/p>\n<p>So we pinched, and scraped, and spared,<br \/>\nA little here and there:<br \/>\nThough our wages was but scanty,<br \/>\nThe church did get a share.<\/p>\n<p>And, when the house was finished,<br \/>\nUncle Jacob came to pray;<br \/>\nHe was looking mighty feeble,<br \/>\nAnd his head was awful gray.<\/p>\n<p>But his voice rang like a trumpet;<br \/>\nHis eyes looked bright and young;<br \/>\nAnd it seemed a mighty power<br \/>\nWas resting on his tongue.<\/p>\n<p>And he gave us all his blessing\u2014<br \/>\n&#8216;Twas parting words he said,<br \/>\nFor soon we got the message<br \/>\nThe dear old man was dead.<\/p>\n<p>But I believe he&#8217;s in the kingdom,<br \/>\nFor when we shook his hand<br \/>\nHe said, &#8220;Children, you must meet me<br \/>\nRight in the promised land;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For when I&#8217;m done a moiling<br \/>\nAnd toiling here below,<br \/>\nThrough the gate into the city<br \/>\nStraightway I hope to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"menu_order":5,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-31","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/sketchesofsouthernlife\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/sketchesofsouthernlife\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/sketchesofsouthernlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/sketchesofsouthernlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/sketchesofsouthernlife\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/sketchesofsouthernlife\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/31\/revisions\/68"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/sketchesofsouthernlife\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/3"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/sketchesofsouthernlife\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/31\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/sketchesofsouthernlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/sketchesofsouthernlife\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/sketchesofsouthernlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/sketchesofsouthernlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}