PRINTED BY BULL & TUTTLE, CLIPPER OFFICE.
1862.
GEORGETOWN, D. C., April 14, 1862.
Reverend Bishop Payne,
Dear Sir—We, the undersigned, having listened carefully to your Sermon, preached at the A. M. E. Ebenezer Church, on Sabbath last, April 13th, a day set apart by the Colored Churches in Georgetown and Washington as a day of Thanksgiving and Prayer, in view of Emancipation in the District, and being deeply impressed by its appropriateness, its wisdom, and valuable practical advice; and believing that such a sermon should be within the reach of all the colored people of this District and the United States; we therefore solicit you to allow us to print the same in pamphlet form.
JAMES LYNCH, Preacher in Charge.
PLATO LEE,
JOHN F. LEE,
H. BATSON,
CLEMENT BECKETT,
WILSON HAWKINS.
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 18, 1862.
Dear Brethren:
Yours of the 14th instant has been received. In compliance with the request which it contains, I send you herewith a copy of the discourse preached last Sunday in the Ebenezer Chapel, Georgetown, D. C. It is identically the same in all its parts. I have amplified some of its thoughts, and added three or four notes, which I think valuable and useful.