DELIVERANCE

Talking about divine deliverance! Levi Coffin, a renown abolitionist and Quaker of antebellum Indiana, writes in his classic underground railroad memoir, REMINISCENCES about a poor, illiterate black woman from Mississippi who escaped from slavery, by hiding out in swamps, forests, by living off the land, kind contributions, and by her faith in God, as she made her way North. In one especially thrilling episode, she hears the hounds baying and approaching, she has no means of escape, other options than to pray for deliverance. She prays quickly! Her fears fall away. She pulls bread crumbs from her pockets and holds them in her hands, awaiting the slave catching dogs, completely at ease. The dogs licked the bread crumbs from her hands and went off bouncing through the woods. She continued on her way, was directed to the home of the great friend of fugitives, Levi Coffin, and was safely delivered to Canada. The Bible stories of Daniel in the Lion's Den, the fiery furnace, and Jonah, if allegorical, are rendered historical, in the many lives and tales of the Underground Railroad!