{"id":143416,"date":"2026-02-20T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143416"},"modified":"2026-02-20T08:05:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:05:01","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-frederick-douglass-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143416","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Frederick Douglass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Almighty God, we bless thy Name for the witness of Frederick Douglass, whose impassioned and reasonable speech moved the hearts of people to a deeper obedience to Christ: Strengthen us also to speak on behalf of those in captivity and tribulation, continuing in the Word of Jesus Christ our Liberator; who with thee and the Holy Spirit dwelleth in glory everlasting. Amen.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">20 Feb 1895: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Abolitionist?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Abolitionist<\/a> and former <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/slave?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#slave<\/a> Frederick Douglass dies in Washington, D.C. He wrote several books including &quot;Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave&quot; in 1845. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/History?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#History<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HistoryMatters?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HistoryMatters<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OTD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OTD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ad?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ad<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bFA6EuTO3O\">https:\/\/t.co\/bFA6EuTO3O<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SwBFvZtjXo\">pic.twitter.com\/SwBFvZtjXo<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Today In History (@URDailyHistory) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/URDailyHistory\/status\/2024768234977992866?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almighty God, we bless thy Name for the witness of Frederick Douglass, whose impassioned and reasonable speech moved the hearts of people to a deeper obedience to Christ: Strengthen us also to speak on behalf of those in captivity and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143416\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143419,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143416\/revisions\/143419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}