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A sermon by Rev. Robert Parker Rumley as reported by Orville Knight Smith and published in AsheviUe, N. C, 1896 The Rev. Robert Parker Rumley, a Negro preacher, achieved fame in western North Carolina for his sermon "De Dry Bones in de Valley"--a sermon he is reported to have preached exclusive to all others in his later active years. Large crowds, both casion. black and white, gathered to hear him, some journeying great distances for the oc- With its prophecy of resurrection and redemption and its strong poetic phrasing, the Biblical passage ( Ezekiel 37: 1-10) on which the sermon is based has had wide appeal to both the primitive and sophisticated mind. Especially popular with Negro preachers and audiences in both sermon and spiritual, it was also the stimulus for literary endeavors--North Georgia poet Byron Herbert Reece's "Ballad of the Bones", T. S. Eliot's "Ash-Wednesday", James Weldon Johnsons seventh sermon in GOD'S TROMBONES owe inspiration to the suggestive power of this passage. Evidence that Thomas Wolfe knew of Rev. Rumley s sermon, or recollections of it, appears in THE WEB AND THE ROCK in the speech of the Negro, Dick Prosser. Howsomever, as Uncle Remus might say,
Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jan 8, 1977
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