¹ Quote taken from: Ken Sawyer, Perspectives. (First Parish in Wayland, Wayland, Massachusetts, 1984.) p. 35 from the sermon "And in the Stillness, a Light" delivered at the First Parish in Wayland, December 7, 1980.

² Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin . (Washington Square Press, New York, NY, 1965.) p. 119

³ ibid p. 120-1

⁴ ibid p. 120

⁵ Ken Sawyer, Perspectives. p. 35

⁶ ibid p. 38

⁷ ibid p. 38

⁸ Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin . p. 424

⁹ Silent Night - traditional Christmas Carol. Lyrics found at: "http://christmas.com/carols/"

¹⁰ Stephen Nissenbaum, "Revisiting "A Visit from St. Nicholas." in The Mythmaking Frame of Mind . ed. James Gilbert. (Belmont, California, Wenworth Publishing Group. 1993.) p. 28

¹¹ Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin . p. 423

¹²ibid p. 422

¹³ Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin . p.271-2

¹⁴Hery Louis Gates, The Signifying Monkey . (Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 1988.) p. 243

¹⁵ Holy Bible, New Revised Standard Version , ed.Bruce Metzger. (Oxford University Press, New York, NY. 1989.) p. 505

¹⁶Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass . (Signet Classic, New York, NY, 1968.) p. 105

¹⁷Ken Sawyer, Perspectives . (from the sermon "In Celebration of Simply Enduring" delivered 4/13/1975) p. 4

¹⁸ Ken Sawyer, Perspectives . p. 37

¹⁹ words by Paul Simon, from the album Sounds of Silence . Lyrics found at "http://www.axicom.net/~simon/sandg/lyrics/sounds_of.silence"

²⁰ ibid

²¹ Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass and Selected Prose . (New York, Modern Library Books. 1950.) p. 75

²² Ken Sawyer, Perspectives . p. 4

²³ ibid p. 39