The daily gazette., 1877-09-26

tender lille ieabs 90 grass. We is heah
to nihgt (dat lea good maay OBJ US am
heah) but to morrow we will be
somewhar else dead and forgot. Wild
ebery tick OBJ &c clock some soul 10
horned away some feeble fame expire
Some goeth to de righth ham side oh
de Lamb OBJ God, but odsrs-oh, my
fren's-oders climb down de long,
long stairs into ebberlastin' darkness
dere to weep and to vail. could glib
you more lllussertrashins but de
clock and de mo vim machine am
good 'nuf."
At the close of the sermon Dominic
Evans jumps up from behind the Ri
BILE and with genial laugh cries out:
''Il's me, bredreu. and sistern: rs got
on strange coat but it's de same me
Now, my fren's," he continues, 'sll
we want is three dollars-ahem-that
is to say hastily we want to sabe
souls oh, of course, but 1t ccsses
money and we mus pay de expenses
1t cosses money fer de lamps and fer
de groun's and fer de preachers-all
dem cosses money. SO, now be gener
Gus and member dat you's saving
nancy no matter how much you glib,
for you is a pay in for religion and eff
'twasD't fer religion burglars would
break into ebery house and cut eb cry
house and cut ebery one of your
trosts dis very night.
Then the begging domiuie begged for
ga good ole fashion song-one dat en-
livens and opens de heart-and de pocket
books, il you please" The ebony chors
listers responded with this quaint hymn,
sung in the genuine plantation manner
that the best negro mlnstrels see the fun
and beauty of, but try in vain to initiate /:
Hallelujah bress de lamb
Little wheel turn de big wheel;
Jesus died for ebery man.
Little wheel turn de big wheel.
Zekeel saw de wheel
Wheel within de wheel
Zekeel saw de wheel
Little wheel turn de big wheel.
Hello! sinner, you is free,
Little wheel turn de big wheel.
God has glib you libcr-tee,
Little wheel turn de big wheel.
Zekeel saw de wheel,
Wheel within de wheel
Zekeel saw de wheel,
Little wheel turn de big wheel.
sire to hab plenty OBJ time,
Little wheel turn de dig wheel;
Cos 'twouldn't do TO be behln',
Little wheel turn de big whell.
Zekeel saw de wheel,
Wheel within de wheel, &c.
The collector was sent out four times,
and nearly So in very small coin was
gathered. The lively hymn, which is as
readily adapt I'd to every requirement as
il the mournful brain of g, w Childs, A.
IL had evolved it, was sung by whites
AMI blacks alike. The song, with its
changes, would read like this, each
change being new verse
Oh, preacher, sister, brother cousin, un-
Gle, or sinner, you ought ter bin dar-
Yaas, my Lord,
a settin in de kingdom
To hear old Jerdan roll
Roll, Jordan, roll roll, Jerdan, roll
want TO go TO heaben when die,
To hear ole Jerdan roll.
After the benediction the cougrega-
ton dispersed, the horses were united,
the wagon loads of laughing young folks
were gathered, and finally, after even so
many cigars and glasses of soda water
had been handed out of the booths and
into the vehicles, the last of the wor-
shippers had left the tabernacle, the
slowest colored girl had adjusted her hat
and taken the arm of her beau, and every
wagon had picked its devious way out
from among the trees. But the clear,
moonlit atmosphere brought from great
distance the sounds of singing by the last
departing wagon load:
The God of gods is a man of war
one mo- ribber to cross
It's us poor sinners he's a fighting for
One mo- ribber to cross.