Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-03-04
WHEE
THE INTELLIGENCER.

HOW CANDAcE CONCLUDED TO BELIEVE THE
OATRcnisE-We quote very racy passage from
the March instalment of Mrs. Stoves ministers
Wooing" which appears in the Atlantic Month
ty. "Candace" is pOrtly female cOlored per-
son very jolly and quite disposed to be "good"
Mrs. Stowe says of her:
Whereas legend current in the neiphbor.
hood that the first efforts to catechise Candace
were not eminently successful her modes of
contemplating theological tenets being SO pecu.
liar from her own individual point of view that
1t was hard to get her subscription to q received
opinion.
On the venerable clause in the Catechism, in
particular, which declares that all men sinned in
Adam and fell with him, Candace made dead
halt
81 didn't do dat ar, for one, knows. rs got
good mem ry,-allers knows what does, ne6er
did eat dat ar apple eat bit ob him.
Don't tell mel"
1t vas Of no use, of course, to tell Candace of
all the explanations of this redoubtabe passage,
-of potential presence and representative pres
ence, and representative identity, and federal
headship. She met all with the dogged,-
"Neber did it, knows; should ave member
ed, if | had. Don't tell mel"
And even in the catechizing class of the Doc.
cor himself, II this answer came to her, she sat
black and frowning in stony silence even in his
reverend presence.
Candace was often reminded that the Doctor
believed the CatchechSm, and that she was diff
terinG from great and good man; but the argu.
ment made no manner ofimpreSsiOn on her till,
one day, far offcousin of hers, whose condition
under hard master had often moved her COM
passion, came in overjoyed to recount to her
how, owing to DIR. ii. IS exertions he had gained
his freedom. The Doctor himseIfhad in person
gone from house to house, raising the sum for
his redemption; and when more yet was want
ing, supplied it by paying half his last quarters
limited salary
"Hc do dat arr" said Candace, dropping the
fork wherewith she spearing doughnuts.-
"Oen Tine gwine to b'liebe cherry word he
does !"
And accordingly, at the next catechizng the
Doctors astonishment was great when Candace
pressed up to him, exclaiming,-
DE Lord breSs you, Doctor, for opening dc
prison for dem dat is boundl b'liebes in you
now, Doctor. Is gwine to b'liebe cherry word
you say. I'll say dc Catechize now,-fx it any
way you like. | did eat dat ar applet eat
de whole tree an swallowed every bit oft, if
you say So"
And this very thorough profession of faith
was followed, on the part of Candace by years
OF the most strenuous orthodoxy. Her general
mode of expressing her mind ON the subject was
short and deinitive.
"Law mel what's de use? Use set to bIiebe
de Catechize, an I'm gwine to b'liebc it,-so!"
They have smart boys down in Albany. One
of them, a pupil in one of the city schools, got
of pleasant little cOnceit in rhyme the other
day, as follows:
The moon was sitting in cloud,
Full fedged in golden light,
matching out the little stars,
The chickens of the night.
But out ofall that brilliant brood,
prOIncad byyT 10
There was but one poor little chick
That could display tail.
This might very appropriately come under
the head of "comet literature"