The President Honors the Life of Reverend Clementa Pinckney

no please nonagon the bible close to home to persevere and have faith things not seen they

were still living by faith when they died scripture tells they did not receive the things promise they

don't i saw them and welcome them from a distance admitting that they were foreigners strangers honor we

man who believes or better days ahead off in the distance amanda service who persevered knowing

full think of all those things this promise because he believed his efforts or deliver a better life for those who follow to

people of south carolina i cannot claim to had the good fortune to know reverend

pick me but i did have the pleasure of knowing and me here in south carolina back when we were both a

little bit younger nnnnn back when i didn't have visible greater the first thing i noticed was

his graciousness his smile his reassurance baritone is deceptive sense of humor all

qualities but how let me i have a burden of expectation friends of his remarks this week that when women

me and room it was like the futura but even from a young age folks knew he was but i'm

going to he was the progeny of a long line of the faith a family of preachers spread god's word that's

where protesters who so changed to expand both and desegregate the saw claim her their instruction and

he did not thirty he was in the pulpit by thirteen pastor by eighteen public servant by twenty three he

did not exhibit any of the cockiness of youth nor use and secures instead he said an

example worthy of his position wise beyond his years spring product in his love as a senator he represent us sprawling

swap of lowcountry a place that has long been one of most neglected in america the place still wracked by poverty and

and added what school a place where children can still go hungry and the search can go without treatment the place would needed somebody like play nnnnn

his position and the minority parliament the odds of winning more resource for his constituents were

a full day at the capitol hill climb into his car head of the church to draw sustenance this family from

his ministry from the community but loved and needed him there he would fortify his faith and imagine what

and kindly and diligently he encouraged progress not by pushing his ideas along my

you know your ideas partnering with you to make things happen he was full of empathy and fellow feeling able

to walk see through their eyes no wonder one of his senate colleagues remembered senator pigments the most gentle of

a public servant but the person who has probably been as our brothers and sisters and there george