“At a half-century plus I am still learning...and have much still to learn.”
I’m 72, and still get surprised occasionally....like by this very thread which we just read. I once had a biography which I loaned to someone and never got back; the post Civil War life of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest. He is “accused” of founding the KKK. He actually did start an oranization which eventually was taken over by others and morphed INTO what became the KKK. By that time he is said to have been out of and distanced from it.
Gen. Forrest is reported to have stopped his horse by the roadside one dark night to rescue an abandoned, weeping infant, which he took home and turned over to servants in his poorly lit home. The next morning when he checked on the child he was startled to see that it was black. He kept the child, loved it and reared it as his own.
The story goes on to tell that Forrest later repented of his racism, turned his life over to Christ, and even did some preaching of the Gospel occasionally.
I’ll have to make a serious effort to locate another copy of that book. Thanks.
Please post the title when you do.