The First Martyr of the Abolition Movement: 100 Bible Verses That Made America

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Let's take a listen. Elijah Lovejoy was born in my wife's home state of Maine in 1802. His father was a congregational pastor and a farmer.

Lovejoy began reading his Bible at the age of four and while still very young he memorized the entire 119th Psalm, which is the longest chapter in the Bible, along with other passages and many classic hymns. He later graduated at the top of his class and decided to move west to St. Louis. His parents, concerned for his spiritual well-being, prayed earnestly for him and their prayers were answered when he rode home telling them he had experienced a personal relationship with Christ during his revival meeting. He also told them that he was entering the presbyterian ministry.

He enrolled in Princeton and as he grew in his knowledge of scripture his convictions about the abolition of slavery deepened. Within a year Lovejoy was licensed to preach and while on a preaching circuit through Missouri he met Celia and French and fell in love with her and married her. Lovejoy didn't confine his sermons to the pulpit. Returning to St. Louis he became the editor of a weekly Christian publication called the St. Louis Observer.

The first issue rolled off the press on November the 22nd of 1833. In his opening editorial Lovejoy wrote that his paper will seek no controversy and it will decline none when by so doing it might compromise the purity of the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. The Observer became a vehicle for teaching scripture relating the news of the day and interpreting the latter by the former. His editorials were must reading and sparks began to fly when he set forth the biblical facts and the brutal truths about slavery. On April the 16th 1832 Lovejoy wrote prophetically while Christians have been slumbering over it the eye of God has not slumbered nor has his justice been an indifferent spectator of the scene. The groans and sighs and tears and blood of the poor slave have gone up as a memorial before the throne of heaven in due time they will descend in awful curses upon this land unless averted by the speedy repentance of us all. Lovejoy's drumbeat against slavery sparked an uproar in St. Louis. Mobs formed threatening his newspaper and threatening his life. Officials sought to silence him demanding he pass over in silence everything connected to the subject of slavery.

Crowds marched into the street chanting down with the observer. Lovejoy was threatened with whipping he said I cannot surrender my principles though the whole world beside should vote them down. Asserting his freedom of speech he fired off another series of blistering editorials condemning slavery with all of its horrors. He compared himself to his namesake in the bible Elijah who stood before Ahab rebuking his sins and who refused to be silenced. He said I do therefore as an American citizen and a Christian patriot and in the name of liberty and law and religion solemnly protest against all these attempts how so ever and by whom so ever made to frown down the liberty of the press and forbid the free expression of opinion. Under a deep sense of my own obligations to my country and church and to my God I declare it will be my fixed purpose to submit to no such dictation. Writing to his brother Elijah Lovejoy said men came to me and told me that I could not walk through the streets of St. Louis by night or by day.

I was alone in St. Louis with none but God to whom to ask counsel but thrice blessed be his name he did not forsake me I was enabled deliberately and unreservedly to surrender myself to him. When it became impossible for Lovejoy to dwell in St. Louis he moved 30 miles away to Alton, Illinois. His printing press which was transported by a boat up the Mississippi was destroyed by a mob upon its arrival. He ordered another press from Cincinnati and the paper resumed publishing on August the 17th 1837. Another mob surrounded him shoved him around and destroyed his new press.

Lovejoy ordered a third one. About 10 pm on November 21st in the light of a full moon a mob of about 30 men armed with rocks and pistols left local taverns and began marching toward Elijah Lovejoy's house. Church bells rang and by midnight the whole town had assembled. The mob broke into his house and one of the rioters shot Lovejoy. Three bullets struck his chest another his stomach and another his left arm.

His new printing press was destroyed and thrown into the Mississippi River and his hearse was hissed in the streets on the way to the cemetery. He was buried on his 35th birthday the first white martyr in America for the cause of abolition a fearless publisher who gave his life for the freedom of the press and a preacher of the gospel who once said I can die at my post but I cannot desert it. And a terrific job on the production editing and storytelling by our own Greg Hengler and a special thanks to Robert Morgan the author of 100 bible verses that made America the story of Elijah Lovejoy here on Our American Stories. Lee Habib here the host of Our American Stories. Every day on this show we're bringing inspiring inspiring stories from across this great country stories from our big cities and small towns but we truly can't do the show without you.

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