promptly showed his "sailor's protection," which the railway official
merely glanced at and passed on without further question. Twice on the
trip he thought he was detected. Once when his car stood opposite a
south-bound train, Douglass observed a well-known citizen of Baltimore,
who knew him well, sitting where he could see him distinctly. At
another time, while still in Maryland, he was noticed by a man who had
met him frequently at the shipyards. In neither of these cases,
however, was he interfered with or molested. When he got into the free
State of Pennsylvania, he felt more joy than he dared express. He had
by his cool temerity and address passed every sentinel undetected, and
no slave, to his knowledge, he afterward said, ever got away from
bondage on so narrow a margin of safety.




HENRY WARD BEECHER

(1813-1887)

THE BOY WHO HALF-HEARTEDLY JOINED THE CHURCH

There is great encouragement for the seemingly backward, hesitant youth
in the story of Henry Ward Beecher's early life.

He tells us that he used to be laughed at for talking as though he had
pudding in his mouth. Yet he became one of the greatest orators the
world has seen.

He joined the church merely because he was expected to do so. It was