All they had was their faith, and they were bound together by that, he thought: faith in Jim Lawson as a teacher; faith in each other, that they would not let one another down at the moment of crisis; faith in what they believed was right; faith, curiously enough, in Nashville, a city they did not know and which had never been particularly generous or kind to them; faith in the country which would, they believed, somehow understand what they were doing and respond generously and support them; and finally, most of all, faith in their God, who would not allow His children to be punished for
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