The times., 1897-04-25
LAMPS-Keroseneburners
The Pa|ais Royal 4 LIsVER G and Eleventh Streets.

cowhidcs, and, for mere sport, caught and
| stripped the old man. under pTetense of
| whipping him
| Uncle Jack made no resistance whatever,
| but, with Iarnb-Hke resignation, meek1y
| submitted The TingIeader, with the lash
| in hand as II about 10 Let fall the TREAT
ened blows, demanded
We'll, old Psalnl-sinEer. what have you
got to say for yourseIf2''
Nothing, young masters; nothing atalI-"
huTnbIy responded Uncle Jack Il have
been wondering while you were strip
ping me OF my garments how it was that
so good man as APOSTLE Paul shoJld have
been whipped three times for preaching.
and that in all these thirty years should
never have gotten a lick"
1t is needless TO tell the effect OF these
words upon these thoUehtIess young men,
nor the Christian thoughts they awakened
before many days throughout the whole rOl-
Iege. Uncle Jack died in 1S43, at the
age of 1907 His influence was GnLOInded
and his whole life was governed by Chris
tian humility.
''UncIe Aleck,'' the bee hunter preacher
of the Dismal Swamp. or ''Rrer ReeSwlx."
as he vas frequently called, was LOrn In
1850, and though he did not speak the
pure English of Uncle Jack, was equally
useful in his influence for good: but his
greatest work was among the runaway
negroes of the Dismal swamp, to whom he
was friend, counsel and protector, often
acting as mediator between them and tbeir
masters His fnterpreta ton of the Scrip
ture was singuiarIy striking, his iHustra-
ttOus vivid and correct, and his guoTat tlOnS
surprisingly minute He, too, in nis early
life had been slave, but his freeti0In was !
the gift of his master, given at the earnest |
request of his son, Jacob Keeling at that |
time studerSt of divinity, but Ifterward |
rector of the Episcopal churches N SanSe- |
mond county, Va, and whose scholarly |
sermons were never more fnIpr ,Ssise than /
when translated by Uncle Aleck and de-
Ifvered in his OWE musical dialect.
lie had learned many OF these sermons
by heart from hearing his young sister |
reading them aloud. I Will quote few
passages OF his version OF one OF the most
intricate and obscure Of them:
MY beloved brederin en- sisterin, fz dar
one rnungst vO' all daU'S 'sembied yer ter
Geddef teTtay / n de presence eT de
gret Deity Cord, dat doan' bow dar haids I
In unbie subinischef en- low ter darse rs
on dar beEded Knees dat He- Cord IL Kin
to ern2 IfGariz arey one, deulet im fereber
L
espose his ignerunCe ter de yuthers twel |
he years W atSwrireu espoundedfu de good
book.
En- dat good hook, my brederin. beginsin
de We beginuin' un hit wild man, Wild
Mars Adam tdat wuZ de name day gin
im}. Well, den, hGw wuz dat frs man, !
Mars Adam iswin6er gityer ter be wit bout
In uat good book. er emmy yuther book ef
somebody eTnuther hddn NEXT I'm? En-
who wuz de dar ter mex i'm b doubtin'
twuz de gre't Greater Hisse'2 Wieh
'twuz, my bredertn Yes, my bredertn, He
look roun bout i'm, de gre'u Greater did, I
dar wuz ter do il out u, witch wuz de dUs'
er de earf, fer sides Dein de safes, hit |
had de mos srowfn' properties in hit, en-
den az III dar waZ mo- erblndunCe er bit ter
do it wild Arrer Cord nIeked dis firs man,
Mars Adarn-mekt Ins ID his own Iakeness
en- inlige, He mingulated HisSe up wild !
im-wun wid de yuther. Den tie tuck en- !
breaved in i'm de bref er life. En- dat | :
1ref, my brederin, meked de kiniaShunse or /
fe faderhood en- brotherhood twix 'em
bofe.
"AH er De gre'tes' poets en- painters fibin'
y daid tdat IL, III dem wild de mos Taruin
n dar haiC.s en- de mes good sensesl IL
rainted gre't pickchurS Ell writ de mos
taies EN- songs bout de ere'r
,Teatef in His holiness en- majesty. En-
vat dey SEE en- meks Ia 'thOfity, fer dey
mos, kase dey all Kin see sperits in de
lowers en- In de eIermen's s en- in de stars
'oets en- painters Kim Dey kin year t'ings
alkfn' dat we all kyan' year, kase dey all
z heap closer ter mystery en- glory dan
We all IL. C'ose dar liz some lax Marse
Thomas Surname Didymus, dat amt got
ben down ter de reg 'lashun faif er de
,ustud seed, en- dey doan' gree wfd desc
uthers, but dey atm got much gumpshun,
eek fer darse' IS ner fer nobody else
uther, en- dar 'pinion aim wuf de salt
/ yo' hoecake.
Let US, my bredertn, now. us stop en-