JOHN JASPER AND HIS IDEAS; Famous ... Meanwhile, in spite of these things, he was pouring out a gospel sermon, red ... there was an ill-suppressed guffaw from the "eddicatid preachers," against ...

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Dr. BUTLER: One of the great classic texts about historical black preacher: John Jasper, who preached the sun do move. It was as though when people heard him preach, that the sun actually moved.

Benjamin Ross, historian of Richmond's Sixth Mount Zion Church, leans on a pulpit used by the church's founding pastor, John Jasper, in the church's John Jasper Memorial Room & Museum on 4/11/16.

Jasper founded Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church in an abandoned Confederate stable in 1867. He rose to national prominence largely because of his 1878 sermon “De Sun Do Move, Earth Am Square.” ...