Nothing! I wanted something to happen to me, but nothing happened.
Was mad but still had to actually believe
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Finally all the young people had gone to the altar and were saved, but one boy and me
Still did not believe and go to the alter
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knelt around us and prayed, old women with jet-black faces and braided hair, old men with work-gnarled hands.
Another sensory detail
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preaching, singing, praying, and shouting
Another key sensory detail in the story
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rhythmical sermon, all moans and shouts and lonely cries
This shows one of the key sensory details in the story
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So I decided that maybe to save further trouble, I'd better lie, too, and say that Jesus had come, and get up and be saved. So I got up. Suddenly the whole room broke into a sea of shouting, as they saw me rise.
This shows the turning point in the story of how Langston decided to say that Jesus had came
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