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- That elite list included my late father, the late Rev. W. Abner Brown of Metropolitan Baptist in Harlem, our family friend Rev. Edward Belton, and a few others, all of whom were black, and with the exception of Rev. Belton, quite dead.†
Chpt 6 *
- He also was a good singer and sang in the Metropolitan Baptist Church choir in Harlem.†
Chpt 19
- It took a long time to pet over it, but Dennis stuck it out with me, and after a while I began to listen to what he said about God forgiving you, and I began to hold on to that, that God will forgive you, will forgive the most dreaded sin, because I felt Mameh deserved better from me, and that's when I started going to Metropolitan Church in Harlem with Dennis to hear Rev. Brown preach It helped me to hear the Christian way, because I needed help, I needed to let Mameh go, and that's when I started to become a Christian and the Jew in me began to die.†
Chpt 21
- Then on Sunday we'd go to the Metropolitan Baptist Church on 128th and Lenox Avenue to hear Rev. Abner Brown preach.†
Chpt 23
- Metropolitan was the church in Harlem back then.†
Chpt 23
- Abyssinian was a big church too, but they'd line up along 128th Street to get into Metropolitan like it was a rock concert.†
Chpt 23
- A few Sundays later we were at Metropolitan and they were singing "I Must Tell Jesus," and the spirit filled me and when Rev. Abner Brown asked if anyone wanted to join Metropolitan in Christian fellowship I stepped into the aisle and walked to the front of the church.†
Chpt 23
- A few Sundays later we were at Metropolitan and they were singing "I Must Tell Jesus," and the spirit filled me and when Rev. Abner Brown asked if anyone wanted to join Metropolitan in Christian fellowship I stepped into the aisle and walked to the front of the church.†
Chpt 23
- We went to Metropolitan for a couple of years after moving to Red Hook, but Rev. Brown had died of a sudden heart attack and it became too much to ride the subway all the way up to Harlem every Sunday with all the kids.†
Chpt 23
- When we came back to New York after burying Dennis, I opened up our mailbox and found it full of checks and money orders and cash in envelopes from people in the projects who knew us, and people from Metropolitan Church in Harlem.†
Chpt 23
Definitions:
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(1)
(metropolitan) relating to or characteristic of a large city
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)