The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-14
ON FOREIGN MISSIONS.

III lows I'll go back home dis chem
in" remarked Uncle Mingo at Sat
urday dinner.
stay ober tell to-morrer," said the
waiter, IAN Wen go an hear some
good preacher
"Wot's it so special?" asked Uncle
Mingo. DE minister glib out he is
goin' to preach on de subjec' oh for
eing MISSIONS" said the waiter.
Den cen dat CASE said Uncle Min
go, you kin count weNout If dey was
talkin' bout sendin' missionaries to
some o. de ongodly parts oh our own
country were dey fears neider God,
man nor Sunday, I'll come an chip cen
my nickel as quick as de mex man.
Maybe it's VERY onehristian, cen me,
but somehow I can't take much stock
cen dis foreign mission business. We
has mo- wickedness an debbilment
right here cen our own country dan
wot we kin manage. widout goin out
our way an bodderin' udder people wot
don't ak us to do nothin' 'cep' to let
'em alone"
1CO OOSCi NGQ Tie WdIlGTt
glib out de tex as de Macedonian cry,
Come ober an help US. " ~t
Dat said Uncle Mingo, might "a
been de Macedonian cry all right cen
de olden times, but desc late days it
has all been change. De Macedonian
cry now is, Come ober an let US help
ourself to all you got
But de main ting wot influence me-"
continued Uncle Mingo, lis de fac dat
1 don't tink we amt got no business
to insis' on gibin' udder people wot
we amt willin' to take from dem. We
claims to be free an liberal coun-
try, cen fac it is our proud boas' dat
we is de country OBJ universal intoler-
alton. Yet, if some o. dem heather
people wot we is all de time sendin'
missionaries to was to take a notion to
sen some missionaries ODER here to
convert us, wot would be de result?
Spose some O. dem people was to
take up a election, an widout countin'
de suspender buttons an de beer bot
tie tags, was to git 'nough to pay deck
passage for de conwertin' party, in
cIudin' de women an chillun; spose de
Dago of Bellerchistan, or de Kerslap
of Siam, or else de Gobang OBJ Ping
Pong, was to write to his great an
good frien', President RosenfieP, an
say, by dis steamer we has de pledger
OH dO pI1OICSC w SIAlPPlh yOu d III
voice of missionaries, holy an pious
people, wot we comments to your kin
perfection. We hopes dat dey will be
productive oh great good cen your be-
nighted midst, an be a bright light
shinin' out cen a great darkness
'Spose dat devoted ban was 70 set
tie down, not cen a disreputable mig
ger-lynchin' state like Georgy but cen
de wirtuous state OBJ Ohio, were dey
brings up all he chillun on de promise
dat il dey is good an say deer pray
ers regular, wen dey grow up dey
might git to be a office holder. 'Spose
after a vile de repot was to git out
dat dey was maxim a whole lot O.
converts, dat de people was all for
saken' DER religion for dat OBJ de islam
OBJ Ping-Pong, or w'erebber else 1t
might be; dat dey wus eben stoppin'
cussin' an swearin' cen de good ole
Chrishtun way. Wot you reckon de
wirtuous people oh Ohio or any udder
state for dat matter, would do to dem
missionaries?
81 don't know 'zactly," said the
waiter: but l reckon it would be
plenty"
1T would be a great plenty" con-
firmed Uncle Mingo; "dere wouldn't be
'nough lef' OBJ de whole push to SEN
back home cen a sardine box
But Wen we goes an sens ober
missionaries, we lows it to be distinc'-
ly understood dat de case is atogedder