A voice. You listen!

"WHEREFORE hear the word of the lord--
"THE days of thy mourning shall be ended--
"VIOLENCE shall no more be heard in the land--
"NEITHER sorrow nor crying--
"FOR the former things have passed away--
"BEHOLD I make all things new--
"ARISE, shine; for thy light has come.

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HEREIN--

Lies the strength and worth of this unusual book, well and deservingly
named: A History of the American Negro in the Great World War. Beyond
merely recounting that story; than which there has been nothing finer or
more inspiring since the long away centuries when the chivalry of the
Middle Ages, in nodding plume and lance in rest, battled for the Holy
Sepulchre, it brings to the Negro of America a message of cheer and
reassurance. A sign, couched in flaming characters for all men to see,
appealing to the spiritualized divination of the age, proclaiming that
God is NOT DEAD! That a NEW day is dawning; HAS dawned for the Negro in
America. A NEW liberty; broader and BETTER. A NEW Justice, unshaded by
the spectre of: "Previous condition!" That the unpaid toil of thirty
decades of African slavery in America is at last to be liquidated. That
the dead of our people, upon behalf of this land that it might have a
BIRTH, and having it might not PERISH FROM THE EARTH, did not die in
vain. That, in their passage from earth, heroes--MARTYRS--in a