"'Walking through the streets of that place in the evening, I saw
evidence that no minister nor citizen there was justified in casting the
first stone at the South for immorality. I lifted up my heart in thanks
to God that my sons were not exposed to the temptations of a Northern
city. Being in the United States District Court there, several times, I
had some revelations also with regard to the treatment and the condition
of seamen in some Northern ships, which led me to the conclusion which
I have often drawn,--that poor human nature is about the same, North and
South.
"'So, when I conducted the services of public worship, I prayed for that
city and for the young people, and alluded to the temptations which I
had witnessed; and I referred also to mariners, and prayed for masters
and officers of vessels who had such authority over the welfare and the
lives of seamen; and I prayed that Christians in both sections of our
land might pray for each other, considering each themselves, lest they
also be tempted, and that they might not be self-righteous and
accusatory; and that our eye might not be so filled with the evils of
other sections of the land as not to see those which were at home.
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