Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-04-16

50 lOseiy, anu In so much style. declar'
nobody but common folks in de city goes
to de Baptiss chu'ch. 1t made me sick
at my stomach to see so much shOutin'
and groanin' dis mOrnin', tbs so ungen-
teel wild us to make so much sarcum-
lOcutiOns in meetin'." And thar she
went on giratin' bout de preacher a
comm out in white shirt and den a.
runnin' back and Citing on black one,
and de people a-jumping up and a-jaw-
ing OBJ de preacher Outen book, and a.
b0win' OBJ deir heads. and a-saying OBJ
long rigimarOles of stuff, till my head
fairly buzzed, and war dat mad at de
gal / jest cOuldn'tsee muffin in dat room.
Well, / jest waited til de kumpny riz to
go, den L step up, and says: young
fOlke, you needn't let what Meriky told
bout dat church put no change into you.
She's sOrter out OBJ her mind now, but
the next time you comes, she'll be all
right on dat and seberal Odder subjecks;"
and den dey all stared at Meriky awful
hard, and goes away.
Well, jest walks up to her, and saws:
"Darter," says |, "what chu'ch are YOU
says you are going to jineT-and says
she very prOmpt-like. ''De 'PisclOpian.
par" and says |: 'Meriky, Pse mighty
cOnsarned about yov, kase / knows YOU
mine amt right and shall jis' hab to
bring you rOun' de shOrtes way poSsi-
ble.' So fech me fine bunch of hick-
cries and l had done prepared for dat
'caslOn. And den she jumped up. and
says she: what make you think l loss
my senseS?' "'Bekase, darter, you done
forgot how to walk and to talk, and dem
is sure signs,' and wild dat jes' let i'm
on her, tell / 'stOnished her siderable.
Fore | ware done wild her she got ober
dem dyin' airs and jumped as high as
hoppergrass. Bimeby she gins to boiler,
ION, LOrdy! daddy daddy don't glib me
no mOrew And, says /: you're i'm
prOvin'. OATS fac'-dOne got you're
nat'ral voice back. What church you
long to Meriky?" And she saws, a.
cryin': Il don't long to none, par"
Well, l glib her annudder little tech,
and says L: what church does you
long to darter?" and, says she, all chOk-
ed like. Il doesn't long to nOne." Den
l jes' make dem hickOries ring for bout
five minits, and den say: "What church
you long to now, Meriky?" And says
she fairly shOutin': "Baptiss. Pse deep
water Baptissr Berry good" says /,
you don't spec to hev your name tuck
often dem church bOOk? and saws she:
mo, sar: alluS did 'spise dem stuck-up
'PisclOpians; dey amt got no 'ligion, no
how"
Brewer Simon, you never see gal so
helped by good genteel thrashin' in all
your days. | bound she won't never
stick her nose in dem new fandangle
churches no more. Why, she jes' walks
as straight dis morning, and looks as
peart as sunfOwer. I'll lay a tenpen-
nsy she'll be singin' before night, dat
good old hymn she usened to be so fond
OBJ. You knows, brewer Simon, how de
words run:
"Baptis, BaptiS. is my name,
My names written on high;
'Spects to live and die in de same,
My names written On hish.''
Brother SimOn--Yes, dat she will, be
bOun': eff does say it, brewer Horace,
you beats any man on church guber-
ments an family displinments Oh any
body | cher has seen.
my bes'. You mus pray for me, so dat
my hands may be strengthened. Dey
feels mighty weak arter dat conversion
l give dat Meriky las night.
A Fashionable Female Fight-Flingins
Scripture at Each Other.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
"Are we not having a delightful out
pouring of the spirit?" asked a young
lady teacher in one of the Brooklyn Sum
day schools of another young lady teach
er,i as the two smet on Fulton street
yesterday.
isn't it perfectly splendid? Mr.. Grace,
our superintendent, told me Wednesday
that an awful lots of precious souls had
been gathered into the fold. Isn't it de-
liciOus?"
Its too sweet for anything. 1t makes
me feel quite Psalm Xviii, 1. Our super
intendent, Mr.. Devine, says he has never
known more refreshing season, and he
thinks the manifestation has not yet
reached it height"
that's just what Mr.. Grace saws" re-
piled the other, "and he really /. limo
thy. iii, 2, if ever man was. He told
me Thursday, nearly the whole vineyard
was rip eand ready for the reapers, and it
is quite So"
'Just what Mr.. Devine thinks. Ash
said, he came to our house Wednesday,
and having Romans xvi, 16'd he went on
to tell us how an especial revelation had
been vOuchsafed to little JOhney White.
who repeated 4SO verses, some of them
real long, Sunday morning Inever heard
of such thing"
"Ohl that's nothing" shifted the other.
I'm our Sunday school Abram Willet:
only six years old, repeated $40 verses,
and it took him all day. Mr.. Grace saws
he is the Matthew ", 4Sest boy in Brook
lyn."
81 don't believe it," said the first. 81
think there is some COlOssians iii, 9 in
that statement, and you will have to /.
Thes. ", 81 before ever can believe you
again."
"Why, you little bunch of Galatians ",
20I' exclaimed the other. To hear you
talk one would think you were Hebrew
j., A. tell you he did say the verses, and
if you deny it you are the last clause of
Proverbs xiv, 5. And L don't believe that
your superintendent ever Romans xvi,
16'd You either. He's got too much
sense"
Il tell you he did, and II. Thess. ",
Esd him?" screamed the first. you are
nothing but Proverbs tx, Is, and YOU
will find yourself come up with in Prov
cribs xix, 20. OIL you unregenerate
thing, how would like to Matthew XVI.
81 your
you'd better not try it" retorted the
other. IF you did you'd the first clause
of Acts ", 10, quicker than a candle could
scorch feather. You can't humbug me
with any long stories about abundant
grace in your old sabbath school, for
there's where they make /. Corinthians
xiv, "a, and know it. The best thing