A good deal has been written oll the folk crcatiorts<br >of the A ~F~cIiC~ 2 )(e~ro : ]his music， sacred and secular;<br >his plantati .>;~ ta!c:% and i~is dances; but that there are<br >fi.，Ik scrm .m.:;， a:; well， is a fact that has passed un-<br >n(Mccd. I remember hcari~lg in my boyhood sermons<br >that were current， ~.;crmcns that passed with only slight<br >m.，)dilications f，om preacher to preacher and from<br >locality to ioca!itv. Such sermons were， ~ The Valtcy<br >of Dry E.:，~ncs， ~ >:iEch was based on the vision of the<br >prophet i:~ the 3 7 :h chapter of F.zckicI; the "Train<br >Sc，mon，" in which b;)th God and the devil were pic-<br >tured as runnin:n: trains， one loadcd with s~.ints， that<br >pulled up in hc:?vcn， and the other -，x{th sinners， that<br >dumped its !， rod in t~cil; the ~[-{cavcrxly )，larch， ~ which<br >gac in detail the ]~urncy ~f the faithful from ea，-th，<br > VH ? t C<br >on up d~rou~h the pearly gatcs to the>，，teat <br >throllc. Thcn thcrc was a stcrcotypcd sermon wh[ch<br >had ~1o definite subject， and vhich was quite gcncrai!y<br >prcach，.:~t; it bc，.，~an v， iih the Crcation， v，cnt on to the<br >fall of man， ramblcd tl:r(:，u~.ql the trials and tribula-<br >tions of the IIcbrcw ChilJ.rcn， came down to the re-<br > i~aa<br > ，，.r，<br >ItSO..~<br >