Brings a message from the skies.
Dear mothers, guard these jewels,
As sacred offerings meet,
A wealth of household treasures
To lay at Jesus’ feet.
The Martyr of Alabama.
[The following news item appeared in the newspapers throughout the country, issue of December 27th, 1894:
“Tim Thompson, a little negro boy, was asked to dance for the amusement of some white toughs. He refused, saying he was a church member. One of the men knocked him down with a club and then danced upon his prostrate form. He then shot the boy in the hip. The boy is dead: his murderer is still at large.�]
He lifted up his pleading eyes,
And scanned each cruel face,