Who first visited the sepulchre early in the morning on the first day of the week, carrying sweet spices to embalm his precious body, not knowing that it was incorruptible and could not be holden by the bands of death?
Angelina Emily Grimké: “Who first visited the sepulchre early in the morning on the first day of the week, carrying sweet spices to embalm his…”
Editor's note · Context
Grimké speaks to the role of women in the resurrection narrative, emphasizing their devotion.
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I have attempted to vindicate the Abolitionists, to prove the entire safety of immediate Emancipation, and to plead the cause of the poor and oppressed.
They are decidedly more prosperous than any of those in which the apprenticeship system was adopted, and England is now trying to abolish that system, so fully convinced is she that immediate Emancipation is the safest and the best plan.
He is moving the British Churches to send out to the churches of America the most solemn appeals, reproving, rebuking, and exhorting them with all long suffering and patience to abandon the sin of slavery immediately.
What can I say more, my friends, to induce you to set your hands, and heads, and hearts, to this great work of justice and mercy.