Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

Author:James Baldwin [Baldwin, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3, pdf
Tags: Fiction, General
ISBN: 9780440330073
Google: UY6jJNIz8vQC
Amazon: 0440330076
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Published: 1985-11-10T06:00:00+00:00

The silence in the church ended when Brother Elisha, kneeling near the piano, cried out and fell backward under the power of the Lord. Immediately, two or three others cried out also, and a wind, a foretaste of that great downpouring they awaited, swept the church. With this cry, and the echoing cries, the tarry service moved from its first stage of steady murmuring, broken by moans and now and again an isolated cry, into that stage of tears and groaning, of calling aloud and singing, which was like the labor of a woman about to be delivered of her child. On this threshing-floor the child was the soul that struggled to the light, and it was the church that was in labor, that did not cease to push and pull, calling on the name of Jesus. When Brother Elisha cried out and fell back, Sister McCandless rose and stood over him to help him pray. For the rebirth of the soul was perpetual; only rebirth every hour could stay the hand of Satan.

Sister Price began to sing:

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