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Funeral Sermon for Mammy Caroline Barr
Caroline has known me all my life.It was my privilege to see her out of hers.After my
father’s death, to Mammy I came to represent the head of that family to which she had given a half century of fidelity and devotion.But the relationship between us never became that of master and servant.She still remained one of my earliest recollections, not only as a person, but as a fount of authority over my conduct and of security for my physical welfare, and of active and constant affection and love.She was an active and constant precept for decent behavior.From her I learned to tell the truth, to refrain from waste, to be considerate of the weak and respectful to age.I saw fidelity to a family which was not hers, devotion and love for people she had not borne.She was born in bondage and with a dark skin and most of her early maturity was paed in a dark and tragic time for the land of her birth.She went through viciitudes which she had not caused;she aumed cares and griefs which were not even her cares and griefs.She was paid wages for this, but pay is still just money.And she never received very much of that, so that she never laid up anything of this world’s goods.Yet she accepted that too without cavil or calculation or complaint, so that by that very failure she earned the gratitude and affection of the family she had conferred the fidelity and devotion upon, and gained the grief and regret of the aliens who loved and lost her.She was born and lived and served, and died and now is mounted;if there is a heaven, she has gone there.
