The Missionary Visitor says:
This, we believe, is our first Sunday-school library book written by a colored author. Mrs, Johnson is the wife of a noted and successful Baltimore pastor, and in this book shows talent worthy of her husband. * * * The tale is healthy in tone, holds the attention and is well adapted to the intermediate classes of Sunday-school readers.
The Baptist Messenger (Baltimore) says:
The fact of its being published by the American Baptist Publication Society speaks volumes of praise for the book.
It also says:
This is one of the silent yet powerful agents at work to break down unreasonable prejudice, which is a hindrance to both races.
There are other strong sayings of the Home Protector (Baltimore), National Monitor, the Sower and Reaper, the American Baptist. the Indianapolis Daily Journal, all of which show conclusively the value of the writings of this noble woman. Her article recently published in the New York Age in the defense of Afro-American literature as original productions is sufficient to hush in eternal silence the enemy of the progress the race has made, who now bobs up and claims that our literature is not original. Mrs. Johnson gives this false doctrine such original blows from the gigantic intellect of an Afro-American, and pursues her enemy with such vehement logic, that she not only confuses, but, like a champion of the truth, she refutes and conquers him.
The writer has often admired this little silent preacher in print, and feels confident that, with such success as Mrs. Johnson has already achieved, we, as a race, may very reasonably expect to garner a fruitful harvest of golden grain from her pen in the future.
