He subsequently went before the all-white Alabama board of education and, in words that had a biblical ring to them, protested that changes were surely coming. “There is going to be a second day of judgment,” the Rev. Seay warned, “and a worst day of judgment, if we don’t all do what we can peacefully.... There are ways in which integration can be worked out in a peaceful process, and if we don’t find these ways, then we will be punished.