The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-02-09
A NEGRO WATCH MEETING
Extracts from a Curious Ser
mon.

IhIOus
The New York Sun has a lon
account of a negro watch meet
ing somewhere in the South, an
it contains a most extraordinar
sermon, from which the following
extracts are made:
I'll tell you little allegoric o
speech by de figger. Truth ant
Lie started out for TO trabble
They stopped to drink at the rib
ber of JordOn. Truth wOs think
ing no evil, but Lie pushed him
and he fell in and was drowned
Lie got out, and stole Truth,
boots, and, meetin' a colored pus
sun who was rootin' round whal
he had no business, entered into
him and sotup his habitation. Sc
Lie has lowed to dwell along wild
cOlored folks ever since. It's my
bisness to pint out desc things tC
sense you Of de tricks of de deb.
BILE. Lie den sowed his seeds
among colored folks. / axes you
amt dis fac9 Don't de produce
correspond wild de seed!
No matter how hongry you gifts,
if you has faith, de Lords gwine
to feed you. Dere wos Dannel, a
man who was sot. agin circus
shows. De clown ketch him pray
in out der winder, and put him
to starve in de lions den. DE an
gel one day met Belzebub carry
ing soup to his farder, who was a
hoein' his crap. Ebenezer came a
ridin' along on a mule. He had
been to town to buy some whis-
ky. De mule he seed de angel,
and he kicked UP and knocked
Ebenezer heels over head, and he
drapt his whisky bottle. Belize
bub he seed de bottle, and he pick
ed it up,putit in his, Coat tail pock-
ct. You see he found 1t, and dat
make it hissen. De angel kotch-
ed Belzebub by his wool on his
head, and toted him off, jlst as he
was, wild his tin bucket of soup
and de bottle of whisky, and drap-
ped him in de den where Dannel
wos. aai 'n ' t.H
! nebber heard dat Daniel got
drunk, but Scripter tells us Noah,
who was shy of water, kept a bot
tie of Looisanner rum under his
bed. Some colored preachers say
Noah wos de 'casien of we black
folks in dis wise: Noah had one
gal child name Cain Amy, a sas-
sy, dissipated gal, who would
steal her daddy's bottle when he
was asleep and drink his rum. He
kotched her one day tipsy and
maxim a spectacle of herself. De
Die man cussed her good fashion
I'LL she turned right black in de
ace. / don't pend much on dat,
Ease it can't be proved Cane
AIMS head got kinky. No, my |
pinion is colored folks is the most |
wonderful production of nature
leg growed jis so. | axes who made
lemf When was dey made, and
WHARF Nobody answers. Desc
,'ints can't be proved by de Bi-
de; dar's muffin in de Holy Writ
Ibout negroes; and dat circum-
tance shows dey is a nation 'cu-
lar to dere own notions, an Fse
lebber seed one dat wosn't proud
VI his color. De 'postles ses to
lie 'pistle "Know thyself." ter
,rets dat, "Be We seekers of the
knowledge how you'se comically
made in de flesh" '.
You have all seed de blisters on
lie sycamore tree; dat is a berry
nterestin' fac in de, Bible. Dere
vas a very small colored man
FAMED Niger Demos. He kept
public house, and done his own
cooking. He heard one of de 'ci-
lies done borrowed a jimmy and
vas comm great glory to preach.
Nigger Demos that if he could
'nly get to see dat good man de
lumbegger he carried in de small
# his back would cease. Hearin'
olks shoutin' he flung down his
lish clof and went out to see de
ciple, but by de 'casion of his
tumpylegs lie couldn't see nuf-
in. A big sycamore was grow
n right before his cabin, so he
hinned up dar and looked down
It de 'ciple, who went ridin' by
nd nebber seed Niger Demos.
'oori Niger Demos did cry! He
vas so hurted, his tears was so
lot dey blistered de bark whar-
'ver dey touched. One of dem
ears hitde jimmy on her back and
lurt her so bad she kicked up.
Dat 'ciple den looked up and seed
Iigger Demos and said: "Come
lown, poor fellow! I'll stop at
our hotel and take a glass of
-our 'simmon beer" Niger De-
nos was proud Of de honor. Syc-
lmores been blistered ever sence.
Now, we must bury heads in de
lurt and pray long and feryently.
hope my endeavorsto give you
lie true light to carry you froo de
lext year will bring forth fruits,
Without insects. The Lord be
yid you all.
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