NEGRO SPIRITUALS AT ABBEY
SCENE AT LIVINGSTONE'S TOMB. By Tellura ph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, ■ May 5. There was a remarkable incident at Westminster Abbey on • Sunday afternoon, when the dean and canons assembled at Livingstone’s tomb, while 40 negroes and negresses sang spirituals. They are students of the Hampton Institute, founded in America in 1868 io educate newly-freed slaves. “Don’t he weary, traveller; come to Jesus” and other passages of six-part spirituals mad© a wonderful appeal, echoing amid tho pillars and vaults of the Abbey church,, which was crowded,
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 May 1930, Page 6
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