Jarena Lee, By Lithograph by P.S. Duval, from life by A. Huffy, via Wikimedia Commons
Master, I know you are no respecter of person.
May the partition walls that divide your sincere followers
be broken down by the spirit of love.
Though in a slave country, I know, Omnipresent one,
that you are with me.
He who fears God and works righteousness
shall be accepted by him,
not he who has a different skin,
not he who belongs to this denomination, or to that,
but he who fears God.
Jarena Lee, 1783-1864, African American female preacher
Say Amen! The African American Family’s Book of Prayers slightly modified
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For he himself is our peace,
who has made the two groups one
and has destroyed the barrier,
the dividing wall of hostility
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