A good deal has been written oll the folk crcatiorts
of the A ~F~cIiC~ 2 )(e~ro : ]his music， sacred and secular;
his plantati .>;~ ta!c:% and i~is dances; but that there are
fi.，Ik scrm .m.:;， a:; well， is a fact that has passed un-
n(Mccd. I remember hcari~lg in my boyhood sermons
that were current， ~.;crmcns that passed with only slight
m.，)dilications f，om preacher to preacher and from
locality to ioca!itv. Such sermons were， ~ The Valtcy
of Dry E.:，~ncs， ~ >:iEch was based on the vision of the
prophet i:~ the 3 7 :h chapter of F.zckicI; the \"Train
Sc，mon，\" in which b;)th God and the devil were pic-
tured as runnin:n: trains， one loadcd with s~.ints， that
pulled up in hc:?vcn， and the other -，x{th sinners， that
dumped its !， rod in t~cil; the ~[-{cavcrxly )，larch， ~ which
gac in detail the ]~urncy ~f the faithful from ea，-th，
VH ? t C
on up d~rou~h the pearly gatcs to the>，，teat
throllc. Thcn thcrc was a stcrcotypcd sermon wh[ch
had ~1o definite subject， and vhich was quite gcncrai!y
prcach，.:~t; it bc，.，~an v， iih the Crcation， v，cnt on to the
fall of man， ramblcd tl:r(:，u~.ql the trials and tribula-
tions of the IIcbrcw ChilJ.rcn， came down to the re-
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