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ref. 4022 — S.l.:: s.n. 1882-1900. . Single sheet of gray paper printed on one side only 9 3/8 5 7/8 inches small chip out of left-hand margin and small loss to one corner; unevenly printed with a surprising number of different fonts and sizes. Unrecorded imprint.It is possible that this notice with the place and date left blank. was for a traveling religious tableau and lecture to be undertaken perhaps in the North to raise money for African missionaries for there seems to be a thread of African-related work suggested in the choice of the men included.After describing the tableaux depicting various elements in the Life of Moses there is scheduled a homage made to two recently dead Baptist Preachers: Edenborough G. Corprew who died in Portsmouth Virginia and Solomon Cosby a Danville Virginia native who died in Abeokuta West Africa aged 31. Both men died in 1881.Also mentioned in the broadside is John Jasper 1812–1901 another prominent Virginia Baptist Preacher best remembered for his sermon The Sun Do Move which expressed his deep faith in God through the imagery of a flat Earth around which the sun rotates.Finally British Baptist Charles Spurgeon is mentioned. Spurgeon a prominent abolitionist known as the “Prince of Preachers” never came to the United States but had a close relationship with Thomas Lewis Johnson the Virginian author of: Africa for Christ. Twenty-Eight Years a Slave—Johnson studied for two years in the college that Spurgeon founded named posthumously Spurgeon College before leaving for his two-year stint in the Cameroons. On his return a sick and grieving widower Spurgeon was one of the many British Baptists who helped him. S.l.:: s.n.,, 1882-1900. unknown