The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-15
CHURCH BUILDING.

 How the Pillars of the Immanuel
 Emancipated Baptist Church of Zion
 Managed It.
 Four months the deacons and elders . of the Emmanuel Emanclpated Bap- tist church of Zion, Poinsett county Arkansaw," had been planning their new edifice. It was all the religious portion of the colored population talk
 ed about Begging went on right ana left. Every young buck who made
 winning with the "bones" felt obliged
 to contribute "foh luck" The som-
 ber-visaged elder asked no questions
 The brown faced bellies made their of- ferings, too. Everything of negotiable value was cheerfully taken--pennies, l due-bills county scrip, commlssary
 ''punch- outs, shoats, sauer-kraut and
 cast-off clothing. The elders were sup
 posed to know how to reduce all the | l gifts to the cash basis by barter and |
 exchange. Labor enough was pledged | l to build a mile of 1evee the chance Of | imprssing it when needed being taken
 strictly on faith. Across the color line
 cash or it's immediate equivalent was l
 ing material. A curious lot of person.
 atty accumulated on the church site.
 Variety, rather than quality, charac-
 terized these donations. Ten railroad
 ties, stick of "culr' cypress piling,
 three or four yards of rough plank
 walk fished out of the Mississippi back
 water, dozen pieces of iron pipe, all
 different sizes and lengths, from
 burned cotton gin, few hundred
 brickbats that had supported the gin
 boiler, one small wagon-load of rotton
 limestone from an old railroad culvert, . bundle of ragged and rusty cotton , ties-thus the schedule ran The dea- , cons and elders watched the growth of | the pile with honest pride. The accu- mutation of fairly available building , lumber proceeded more slowly, but it . was characterized by great variety, z too There were two oak and two gum
 sills: little oak and more yellow pine
 and cypress flooring material three n uoors and seven windows, already glaz- a ed, all of different sizes, and all sec V ond- hand; oak and cypress shingles In equal quantities for about half the /. roof and corrugated iron from an old - millshed for the rest. And so it went. ~ The nearest saw-mill was levied or \, heavily for donations and gave liberal = ly from it's yard at the negro'S oWr
 valuation. But still more really mer ro chantable material was needed-"culf ,e lumber being taken with innocent free 1r dom and without question. For tn = additional stuff" cash or it's equlVal s ent-mill labor orders--must be pald I,, One Saturday afternoon the deacon an x' elders all laid off to make the final an to largest payment for raw materla ,o They filed solemnly into the mill man NV, office and took off their hats.
 ,to White folks we has come to buy q
 lumbah foh ouah house of worship?' on "All right, elder, how much do yo ha want? The mill isn't running this al
 ternoon because so many of the me . had to help dig the church foundation a but we can start in Monday early an '.. cut Ter right through and visions of i,s weeks profitable run fitted throue ao. the mill mans mind. He added: "HaN ,a5 you the bill of dimensions made out ea "No, sah but we is got the money i io this very proudly. we thought yt r,, would figgerup de pieces foh us"
 ' Well, I aint a carpenter, but may' ,a., I can fix you. How much do you wis ,b- to pay?"
 a Then began an exploration of pate oss ed and ragged apparel on the part o~s the whole delegation. The mill m' ,to,, thought he was going to get hundr +ha at least from each delegate. His ey # ad began to bulge-mild avarice illuml ,,, ated his entire visage Up came t s.ti first brown and horny fist. It clutch ,so three quarters and eight nickles. Ba Q oe it went, and this time dug deep. T
 net result was another nickel and coppers The mill man looked less aN b1, ricious now. The remainder of the d neil Ing alehe' oii .ie,i V :. .a,, rter egaeioii i,au niIoliN i4,ie 4,l N,l.,;oa e., edge aooul nail a,i noui Nle ..Hn.s+ I ncil lay peloie l.e s"N' -. - r-.o. a,os, 'Ns'N scanned, until the task was finish e., Very soon the sawyer looked up, e
 tempt in every line of his face.
 And you want to get lumber enol ias for the church with this?"
 , "Well, white folks, we kinder spected it would fin de nails, too. must Keeps s,tr aiu ,oar, woe fror, inc Nc coli- and he swore That pile contained ..ee' single paper dollar, six silver doll 'ther two labor orders for 50 cents each,
 the remainder in halves, quarters, d mon es. nickles and pennies-S1445 45 all sclno Neither of its late custodians wt rd to have turned it over to his fellow-c 1apel mitteemen for any reason.-From uncll St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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