Jackson advocate., 1956-09-29
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BY PERCY GREENE

corner of one of the favorite Sat-
urday night spots up and down the
Ole Avenue, it's no telling what
kind of conversation or argument
you'll find going on at one of the
tables where the faithful are un-
dergoing their results Saturday
night repast of fish and beer. So,
/ wasn't surprised when while en-
dulging my fish and beer heard
two of the Gentlemen of the Cloth
in a wide open discussion of what
kind of a sermon would better suit
the spiritual needs of the Chillun
of Aunt Haggar's hereabouts at
this time, and after some discourse
at length which l listened to with
varying degrees of interest, l was
somewhat startled when all at once
one of the brethren gave out with
this text as the firm and convinc-
ing need of Aunt Haggar's Chill
luns now the text was, as
stated: WHY DO THINGS COME
AGAINST ME- !. AND l SERVE
THEE AND MY NEIGHBOR
A SINNER SUCCEEDS.
Well, when I heard it, after
only a moments reflection, whether
l caught the drift of the Brothers
thoughts or not, / couldn't help
from agreeing with him that we
among Aunt Haggar's Chilluns
need some sermons along the line
of that text. Turn us up and
down, weigh US any way you
please, and you'll find that the
greater part of our time is spent
worrying about something our
neighbor's got how he got it
and how he got what to git
it with and the more l thought
about the text, the more | could
understand why so few of us have
anything to be much worried about
ourselves the reason being
that when one of us gets little
something puts one foot for
ward the rest of us stop doing
what we are doing and start worry
ing about how he got what he
got and how he got what he
got to git it wild . ". Yes sir,
Brothers and Sisters, one text the
chillun's need to hear preached on
more is on WHY DO THINGS
COME AGAINST NE AND
SERVE THEE AND MY
NEIGHBOR A SINNER
SUCCEEDS.
HAPPY NOTE TO PARISH
STREETERS: Brother D. D. Shep-
herd, who many know, and who
recently underwent an operation
is out of the hospital and back at
his home on Monument street, and
his wife smilingly told me that
he is doing just fine and from
up at Mound Bayou the news to
me is that Mayor Greene, who
took kind of back set few days
ago is showing the good signs of
Improvement in the Veterans Hos
pital in Memphis.
SOMETHING TO REGRET:
Whilst everybody up and down the
Old Avenue has been talking about
how glad they are that cool wealth
er is here, one of my old friends,
you guess who, was not too GER
tain that he is glad to see the cool
weather Reason, it means
that those attractive young things
will stop parading up and down the
Ole Avenue in them all-showlng
short breeches
SOMETHING THAT MADE
ME- LAFF: Them fellows standing
upon the Harlem-End of the Ole
Avenue telling about how funny
Brother Jim Dotson, the barber
shop man, looks when anybody
brings up the subject of age.
THAT OLD BIRD that carries
in his bill that little old heart
warming and family cementing
bundle, left one the other day at
the home of Lawyer and Mrs. X.
Jesse Brown here. lisa boy, and
everybody is we'll and happy.
Weekly Quotation: Life con-
sists in wanting something. When
a man is satisfied he is as good
as dead."-AnOnymous.