BALTIMORE -- The proximity of the Martin Luther King holiday and the inauguration of the nation's first black president was not lost on the parishioners at Bethel AME Church in Baltimore.
The Rev. Frank Reid said he wanted to thank God for "letting us live long enough to see Barack Obama elected president of the United States."
In a litany read during the service, the congregation was told "Dr. King pursued his dream for racial equality and we see the manifestation of that dream in President Obama."
The litany continued, "Dr. King went to the mountaintop, saw the Promised Land, and assured us that we would get there one day. Thank you God, that today is the beginning of that day."
