The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-04-25
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Brother Newton.

Wnen NeWndn HILL was III L Hill
tdelphia in 1870 he lectured the short
time he spent there constantly, some
Mines on Sundays preaching four or
I'VE times. Your correspondent, with a
~, started to hear him at an evening
s{rvice He was announced at six at
u urch far up town, and for eight o'clock
u St. Thomas's. Though we none of us
Jew the church by name, its location and
III hour were so convenient, we decided
IN hearing him there. Arriving an hour
IRE the time, in the hope of thus secur-
seats, we found ST. Thomas's to be
8Iplored peoples church, and the services
aAready fully under way-having their own
Fvices beforehand we discovered upon
zsEtting in.
1--WE were received at the door by ushers
an dresscoats and white ties and gloves,
and taken to seats in the galleries. the rest
the church being already packed, aisles
w "a all, with a mixture of white and black
8&ks.
3 IA moment after we were seated, as a
Hayer was ended, Brother Newton" was
it is to record some of his
Sngent utterances this is being written
BONG other things, he said:
isSstVe are going to beg tonight while
we've got lot of you ofboth colors here,
for some kinds Of mixtures is good and
wholesome. We're a-beggin9 in the int'r-
csts of the church. What interests, do you
say2 Why, the int'rest of keeping of il
pigood and warm and light goodier than
a9han that, comfortable for all of We to come
4 shto and worship the Almighty. We want
No raise the money for the fire and the lights.
%Yhat, do you say we oughtn't, because the
IA says salvation's free? SO it is,
SSs Who's agoing to say it amt
sAs PMS free, thank the Lord !" (Then
as a responsive shout all over the
-"Thank the Lord !" eyes, yesm
SFs 3!) "So's water free, thank the
N d-so's wafer free but We have to pay
iS the pipes and the buckets what We get
don't yel Yah ! now don't We g.
s Der circumstanced that, | SUPPOSED"
CONSTANTLY through his remarks there
& ch was very singular, beginning with
eaders around the pulpit, and spread
5as quick as thought over the church.
NJ men" "Thapk the Lord" eyes, yes,
sss His name"
When he said something comical, as he
p1stantly did. little un.opeatable things
There would low gurgle of laughter 90
prough the audience, when, quick as a
fash, he would turn upon them sternly:
"Laughin', are ye? Better weep, the
ut Of ye-a-laughin' in the house of the
Cord, sins and all sins and all ~
III He gave an account of having the week
sbetore attended convention in New
Haven
"And went regular, and the fuss they
Amade over me was great. 1t was Brudder
/ Newton here, and Brudder Newton there,
Band Brudder Newton every where; and
began to believe was II great man, you
a4Aay bet. But when that convention was
broke, met them members in the street,
sNd they cut me dead. So | concluded it
rs brudder in the meeting and Niger
the street"
Sme one behind him pulled his coat and
Bpercd something; then he announced:
he brudders tell me | must stop my
9cause they mean to tune me up in the
All right. can sing, thoug h and
Day me twenty five cents n yard for
VI good cause OF a-lightin' and a-war-
n this burdened church, Illmcasure We as
by yards as ye choose. But now while
8listen to the 'chor perform, We will come
Yard to the altar and deposit yer money
h as the people in the galleries can't get
In because OF the crowd on the stairs
y redren will pass the baskets round to
reserved 'corpses' up there. And you
-sisters down yer, you've been a-shout-
pd a-groaning let's see if you know
about giving"
the "Black Swan" who is IN the
sang divinely, AMI Mr.. Hall, hay
ived, "spoke his little piece. Ed
Mawer in Hayper's Magazine for