Uncle Tom's Cabin
When US president Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe at the start of the Civil War, Lincoln declared, "So this is the little lady who started this great war."
The American Civil War (1861-1867) had its origin in the issue of slavery of the black people in America.
Harriet Beecher Stowe was the one who wrote the best-selling book in the 1800's next to the Bible called Uncle Tom's Cabin. It gripped the minds of people in America and in England. It was very instrumental in catapulting the idea that slavery must be abolished. One little lady made a difference for millions of people.
The story is about a godly, black Christian slave called Tom. Here is the gospel in the story:
Tom was separated from his family when his master sold him to a slave trader. The slave trader in turn sold him to a rich man who had a little young girl who took a particular friendly affection for Tom.
Little did everyone know that the young girl was dying. After she died, Tom was released as a free man, to his surprise. The rich man told Tom that his daughter made her promise that he would let Tom go a free man when she dies. And so he did.
Isn't this exactly what the Lord Jesus did when He died for us? We were hopelessly enslaved to sin. But God the Father and God the Son made a covenant together. God the Father promised the Lord Jesus Christ that anyone who trust in Him and what He did on the cross will be freed from the slavery of sin.
Freed by the death of His Son.
