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BY PERCY GREENE

BY PERCY GREENE
PARISH STREET SATURDAY
NIGHT: When was a boy +. and
that's been a good while ago now
the classic sermon of the
preachers that folks like to refer
too as old tymie now was GAS
THE EAGLE STIRS HIS NEST"
i. and like all the other folks of
them days would be in the crowd
whenever any forewarning was
given that of a Sunday, or on some
Revival Day :. the preacher had
elected or was going to
elect to take his text around the
subject" GAS THE EAGLE
STIRS HIS NEST" . and nv
fish and beer and this amt
no sacrilege cause / mention them
together / like to 20 back in
my mind to such events as
indeed they were and recount
feelings and scenes that took place
on separate occasions as the SER
mon and the subject (the Preach
er) moved into the highest climax
which always brought on the shout
ings >. glory hallelujahs :.
Amens amid fervid and colorful
bedlam and confusion As /
look back it seems a pity now that
the so-callel "smart" preachers
don't deal with such texts that
is not often like the text
GAS THE EAGLE STIRS HIS
NEST" I remember on one oc-
casion, having been fore-advised,
l journeyed up to Carthage, in
Leake County to hear a young
preacher friend of mine "eluci-
date" on that learned subject. AS
| remember now the sermon got
started about 2 o'clock in the af-
ternoon it being then August
and last until just about sun
down y. it can't be said that all
OF the aspects of the text had not
been at least advanced before the
end was reached 1t is only
yesterday +. so to speak . that
it begins to dawn upon me why
those cold tymie" preachers so
often liked to call upon the text
and that begin to catch the sig
nificance Of their preachments and
utterances. 1t was generally true,
as / understood and was told by
those who understood better, that
the Preachers would always select
the text when ever anything hap
pened locally or abroad, which car
ried with it more than the usual
meaning in terms of life and living
in the Negro Community fol-
lowing such events the sermons
from the text ;. AS THE EAGLE
STIRS HIS NEST kas a kind
of reaffirmation of faith and
trust in "GOD" and his righteous
ness and justice What a SER
mon them Old Tymie Preachers
would preach and what a ser
mon them smart preachers :.
COULD ;. Preach NOW.
WHAT THE HEP KATS ARE
SAYING: That the new Stevens
Kitchenette up where Shepard's
used to be is the swankiest, best
est, most pretty place owned and
operated by Aine Maggar's Chill
lun anywhere in desc whole United
States
SOMETHING THAT MADE NE
LAFF: That fellow out in West
Jackson showing the crowd how
some Of the teachers are going to
be looking and acting when they
see the big Security Life Insur-
ance sign in front of their build
ing and the arguments get start
ed that the big fish is done slip
and sold de building.
IF YOU LACK TO READ: I
would recommend that you read.
TOO SIR, WITH LOVE, and
book that has a special appeal for
teachers, written by one of the
members of the Tribe-O- -Haggar.
WEEKLY QUOTATION: "To
know how to suggest is the great
art of teaching. To attain it we
must be able to guess what will
interest; we must learn to read
the child's soul as we would
piece of music. III. F. Amiel.
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