Show r r i k to n 11 J t y k I A Hunt Js 15 naf S t PJ 0 s 1 BY NT BONNIS I tt 4 r The R Roll ll Is Called i W A Up Yonder j J 4 e f i 1 vii i ii q girl r falls alls fo to an answer er when w her ier name I Js Is called r f t M. M Black J walked along the streets of P Uve Pa with a 8 heavy heart r had never failed faDed before to to answer roll roil Sunday School Black knew because her he r welted the roU roll himself But Bessie Ie didn't e il Wet that morning he called her name a Q second to I St sun Still failed to to answer and he knew Ii f eme was wu wrong Then somebody said I hadt had hem been suddenly taken taken Ul ill and doctors told held little hope for fOt her k r XOi SocIal Worker James Black Bessie Was t mere anore than Just another recruit for his Sunday Reboot hod class clase and young peoples' peoples society She lived on the other othor side of the tho tracks in to what r I was called called before the turn of the century The x Blade Black had found her one day on the broken down steps steps' of a broken d would come to tor tog r t g 1 Sunday sund y School She would be bo there the tho next a I 6 Sunday anday Then ehe lIbe looked at her cr ragged clothes and sald ma maybe be she V I I couldn't t come after aU all c t m t of f the lord shall sound 4 ert t. i and Ond tIm tIme i shall ahall be be no more S i 1 Tl 1 the l eternal k y f. f V brIght a and d di i k Jw t. t tIr y I fa u t I W z tt n the saved e of f earth f. f shall Thal Q I gather pother 4 t sr on the other ther thor t A And the roll U called be there then J that blight and cloudless doudle l morning fi the dead In Christ rf t shall ahall rl rise I d the his 1 01 of His resurrection shares share If y 1 ir t- t 1 1 I a t. t f I But the next day somebody left I f e box of new clothes clothe at Des Bessie e house bow Every Sunday oIt after r that when James Jamea Black called the tho roll he looked up and sort of when he he came camo to o Bessie's name But now for the first time she failed to to answer As he ho walked home that Sunday In 1893 James Black got to thinking that maybo maybethe the next Bessie answered to her name It would be Ill a the groat great roll ron call cau Then hel he got to wondering if U his hla own name might be on the tho same Bame roll Besides teaching Sunday School Black loved to play the piano plano and write poetry He Ito said sold that tho words for tor a n hymn Just lust seemed to come coma to spontaneously and he wrote them down that afternoon That night he set them to music Black collected his poems poems' into a n little book he called caged Songs of the Soul In the book is the Verso three t veroo poem he wrote Just lust before a little girl named Bessie went to answer to her name When his chosen ones shall gather I 1 to to t their home beyond the stiles skies And d the roll Is called up yonder Ill I'll be there here Let Lei u us vi labor for the Master Matter from the dawn till setting letting sun lun Let us s t talk lk of all hit hIs wondrous love lave and caret care corel then when all of life Is la over and our and out our work on earth arth It la done don And the roll Is called up p yonder Ill I'll be there f 4 I j i b 1 M i t 1111 1 fi firl r l fiC It ii 1 N |