Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-12-09
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Letter from a worldly minded Preacher.
My DEAR FRIEND Il has never for
got thee night l spent with you at Doctor
-, and has feeled attached to your
person ever sense that night that | took
you in my rms like q little Baby and
clasped you to my brest like a plus mother
would doc a dieing infant and has felt it
my dutie to Civ a little vice on Scriptur in
this short spistle like Saint Paul did to thee
Romans-and now my child remember
that you has a soul to be save by God a
Mighty and when you does go to dye don't
say that preacher y never gin you
vice. Oh salvation your soul remember
now thy Creator in the days of thy youth
as thee evil days draw not nj and see in
you is a marrying fellow. / feele ct my
duty to gin you little vice on subject Mat
rimoRy. You mus not marry any of them
rich proude scaunfull HE minded Presby-
~terians nor hone them HE folks Pispa-
lians nor none thee Methodist for they ia
no Education, butte marry Mr.. Cts
daughter near O.- thee place whare
l now put up at, l spect to prach the
Gospel at thee Baptist meeting house in
- tomorrow. l now gin you my
text o every one that thirstest come
ye to the water, bye and eat without me-
ney and without price" l wish you wus
here to here it for | think you wus Plus
inclined thee mite l sleeped with you.
must now say som more of portance bout
Mr.. G. --'s daughter as I think she
are a smart hard working gall and sides
very CLEVER gall l is now got on a par o
socks she spun nit and died, and sides tina
she says she is gwine to gin me a par o
breeches soon as she finishes weaving then
and get them out the lum and sides tina
she are going to max them for me for sh
takes in mems sowing or worke no doub
you is herd of the great sower Bysy Ann
+, O. She sed tho she ne,e seed 20
| she would send her specks to you from m
! scription as you as a smart rich young fe
low she says she hopes to be your. wife som
these future days. She has pale yollo
{ eyes which spresses goodness hard wol
and she haves lite sandy har and nigh bun
by skin and what makes it, is her industr
{, She succors barker weeds tatoes, shuc
corn soes oats grubs up stumps and plov
every spring of her life, as you see by th
70 that she are a real smart gall
or She have a real big hand which sho
or she works hard and a big foot which sh,
she 60 bare footed in summer 80 you ha
no spence bying her shoes. 1 take op
tunity of coustoing against rich ghalls
Nv they cannot do nothing butte play on phi
to no and sang but this gall whar l recome
ale is a mimber of Baptist Meeting and
q splays on no pearino but prais instead
that. As | 60 to pruch in Baptist No
nd ing to morrow ! haste stop now but l
ore rite agin soon as you recede the spistle
ia l forgot to tell you | had to file brot
Jordanes ointment & every body know
ele is a very huant man / must now sto,
1t q prepare my sermont as l know they
the spect some thing extra from me there
out ed brother in the church. Nothing
cry have been told bout sept brother y
are going to preech in town. 1t are pr
you from street to street, from house to be
from dore to dore and you may spec
It's see my sermont in the B. G. [ spec
Boz see that same handsome gall Betsy An
ln't thar and l spec she win want to now
now is hern from you and if you is well
harty. You must scuse this paper as
q pease l had left in my old grog
gia- book whar | use to charge ticker and b
the dy and beer &c-but not standing all