Just why did you come here, Brother Jackson? Why did you come to me? I just wanted to kneel here beside you, Reverend Gaines, and give myself up to the Lord. What! Reverend Gaines started as though Jackson had uttered blasphemy. "Give yourself up to the Lord? Jesus Christ, man, what do you take the Lord for? You have to go and give yourself up to the police. The Lord won't get you out of that kind of mess."

Jackson says he came to give himself up to the Lord after losing the body and gold ore.

— Harlem Cycle #1 - A Rage in Harlem (Chester Himes, 1957)


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