Excerpt from Herod, John and Jesus: Or American Slavery and Its Christian Cure
Eighteen hundred years ago, there appeared in the corrupt nation of Judea, a stern and terrible Prophet. John the Baptist appeared, crying "Repent ye, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand." He came preaching in the wilderness, clothed with camels hair and a girdle of skin about his loins, and he ate locusts and wild honey. The people of the proudest city and country on earth flocked to hear him. He preached a gospel of terror and destruction to the wicked. "Now," he said, "the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit, is hewn down and cast into the fire." He said to his hearers: "Oh, generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?" For now, he said, had appeared the awful day of reckoning. The high places should be brought low, and the low places be exalted. One was coming, mightier than he, who would baptize with the Holy Ghost and fire; who would purge the earth and burn the chaff with unquenchable flames.
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