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of ourselves, and protect ourselves, and must support ourselves. We must form societies to help each other who cannot help demselves, and
we must show to the nations dat we can support ourselves, and dat we can protect ourselves wid the help of God; and dat He will do. He
has done it, and I know He will help us on time more, if we looks to Him I know de times looks hard and berry dark to some of us, who is hungry and cold. Like allde chillen of Israel, our soul is dried away, and we 'members de flesh-pots and de leeks and de
onions of Egypt, and we is ready to say, "Oh, dat our graves had been dere!" for we tinks dat our Moses has left us and we has lost our confidence in him. But I stands here to-night to tell you dat God has not forgotten us, and He is just, and He will bring us along bimeby.
We deserves hard times, we deserves hunger and cold, and we deserves enemies, because we is not all honest, and we doesn't do de best we
can. We doesn't help ourselves; and I tell you dat God won't help those dat won't help themselves. You know when Joshua went to fight
Ai, he was beat, and his men got killed, and was driven back, and poor Joshua didn't know something was wrong with Joshua's men. Some
of dem did steal a coat, and some did steal money, and God knowed it, and he telled Joshua, and den Joshua find it so; and he punish and kill de tief and de liar, and den his enemies could not stand against him. Now we has liars, and we has thieves, and knows it; and we all suffer as a people, as dere is sin wid us. God ain't gwine to help de wicked and bless dem. No sir! God ain't gwine to do any sich thing.
He is gwine to 'flict us some way, long as we is wicked; long as we don't speak de truth; long as we steal; long as we doesn't believe Him ; long as we is lazy; long as we don't help ourselves, He won't help us.

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