The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-07-10
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What makes me tell you what / do?
Ben Chris Weaver come up from the
old Panther creek settlement some days
ago. and passed . night with me. You
see me- and Ben Chris have been as
friendly and thick as four in a bed from
the golden days Of boyhood clean
through till now And we till visit and
swap lies and mix tobacco atleast oncst
a year, to keep our old acquaintance
young and the -recoIlections of old times
fresh so far as me and him are con
cerned
''They have now got so internal many
new pints and fancy trimmins and ex-
ira touches on the game, Rufe, til!
blamed if 1 know what cards are COM
in next" says Ben Chris that night
after supper. "Froru the way in which
they run things in this present day and
| generation, it wouldn't be no ways sur
prism TO me to see two pair beat three
Of a kind, or four aces win the pot over
a straight flush.
And what is more, Rufe, if you amt
as blind as a mole and as deef as u post,
you can see them same n~ew-fangled
fool notions croppin out in regards to
a most anything and everything in
sight. Even to the churches have got
the new disease, and bless the Heavens,
if some of the latest styles in religion
don't make people meancr instid of bet
ter. That is the Bible truth, if 1 ever
told it.
Right soon after Christmas two
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come down into the old settlement, and
after skirmishin and scoutin around
the edges for a few days, they put in
andwent to preachin forth their strange
doctrines. They o o got toe holt over
there at old Rehobeth church, and, by
gracious, they have now busted the
church wide open, and turned things
wrongside outards and raised more
hot weather amongst the people than q
little. AS for me, Rufe, l don't take no
stock in any such contortionments, but
from all I can hear and pick up around
amongst the people, the new preachers
set forth and maintain that accordin to
the Bible and the declared words OF
the 10 epistles, a man has got the right
to marry himself off with as many Tari-
Gus and sundry women as he wants to.
They preach some other wild and woolly
doctrines. but that ~pluperfect fool no
ton about marryin is the mainest new
pint in their religion
''Now, it would seem like some of the
members at old Rehobeth-which you
recollect that church was built up ac-
cordin to the Methodist faith and order
way back in the early settlement of the
country-they took up with the new
doctrine, whilst others kicked and
wouldn't touch it with a 4O-foot pole
But finally at last the biggest side stood
by the new preachers, and the others
them that are Methodists till yet, ant
Methodists till they die-they had tx
: pull off and take out and quit the
church.
! But the most strangest thing in tbs
whole business to me, Rufe, comes from
the fact that some of the NM folks
have took up with that multitudinou'
fool notion about more wives than on,
I for every man. 1t wouldn't look 81
tremendous passin strange for the mel
.. folks to take up with such doctrines
! but blamed if l can see how they eve
! got it to go down with the ome Blu
! it won't hold water, Rufe. / told then
. people from the jump that they ruI
: their religion dead square agin common
: sense and rough shod owe human ma
: ture, and they can't. The devil is in II
and eonsquentially they are bound t
: play the devil with it"