The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-03-19

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in another world. hear folks talkin
about ow wicked the worlds GROWN
and wishin they could go back to old
times, but it looks like to me there's
jest as much kindness and goodness
in folks nowadays as t ere was when
was Young; and as for keepin' sum
day, why, I've noticed all my life that
the folks t?at strictest about that ain;
always the best Christians, and | reck-
on there's been more foolishness
pread ed and talked about keepin' the
Sabbath day holy t aBabout any other
cne tning
Il ricol'ect some fi.ty-odd years ago
the town :olks got to keepin' Sunday
mighty strict They hadn't ad
preacher for long time, and the
church, been takin tAings easy, and
finally they got new pread er from
down in Tennessee, and tle first thing
he aid was 10 draw t e lines around
'em close G.:d tight about keepin' Sun
day. Some O. the members had been
in the abit O. havin their wood chop
ped on Sunday. Well, as soon as tie
new preacher come, he said that Sun
day wood chopin had to cease amongst
his church-goers or ed have EN- up
before TIE session ricollect old Judge
Morgan swore he'd have Lis wood
chopped any day that suited i'm. And
he had a load O. wood carried down
cellar, and nobody ever would a
found it out, but pretty soon they
got up a big re7ival that lasted three
months and spread way out into the
country, and, bless your life, old Judge,
Morgan was one o. the first to be con-
verted; and wnen he give in his ex-
perience, ne told about the wood chop
PIN, and how e hoped to be forgiven
for breakin' the Sabbath day.
well, of course us people out in
the country wouldn't be outdone by
the town folks, so Parson Page got up
and preached on tie Fourth CommAnu-
ment, and all about that pore man
L at was stoned to death for pickin
I'D a few sticks on the seventh day.
I4nd Sam Amos, he says after n1eetin
broke, says ne, It's my opinion that
t at man was Industrious, enterpris-
in feller that was probably pickin' up
kindlin wood to make his wife fire
and says ne, If they wanted to stone
anybody to death they better a picked
cut some lazy, trifin' feller that didn't
have energy enough to work Sunday or
any OF er day Sam always would
i ave is say, and nothin' pleased him
better'n to talk to the preachers and
git the getter of 'em in argument.
ricollect us women talked taat sermon
over at the Mite Society, and Maria
Petty says: 4 don't know but it's a
wrong ting to say, but it looks to me
like that Commandment wasn't intend
ed for anybody but them Israelites. 1t
was mighty easy for them to keep the
Sabbath Gay holy, but says sne, the
Lord don't rain down mamma in my
yard. And says Sic, men can stop
pIowin' and plantin' on Sunday, but
they don't stop eatin,' and as long as
men ave to eat on Sunday, womenll
have to work
"And, Sally Ann, she spoke up, and
says she, That's so; and these very
preachers that talk so mucl about
keecin the Sabbath day holy, they'll
walk down out O their pulpits and set
down at some woman's table and eat
fried chicken and hot biscuits and corn
bread and fb,e or six kinds o vege-
tables, and never think about tie work
ii took to git the dinner, to say nothin'
O. the dis -washin to come alter
There's one thing, child, that never
told anybody by Abram; reckon it
was wicked, and l ought to be ashamed
to own it, butt never did like Sunday
till l begun to git old. And the way
used to be kept, it looks to
me like nobody could "a been eX-
pected to like it but old folks and lazy
folks. You see, l never was one o /
these folks t@at's born tired. l loved
to work. l never had need of any more
rest than 1 got every night when
slept, and woke up every mornin'
ready for the days work. hear folks
prayin' for rest and wishin for rest,
but, honey, all my prayer was, Lord,
give me work, and strength enough to
do it. And when a person looks at
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