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VOL. II
The Lost Girl.
We publish the following bnlloA at tbo re¬
quest of a lady friend:
Young people hear, and I will tell
A story of a soul in bell:
A lady who was young aud fair;
But died in sin and dark dispair.
Her tendor parents oft did pray
For her poor soul Trom day to day;
They gave her council, good and wiso,
But she delighted still in vise.
She would go to partios—dance and play,
In spite of all her friends could say.
“I will turn to Hod when I get old,
And then bo will receive iny soul.”
At length she heard the spirit say:
"Thou sinful wretch forsake thy way,
And turn to God or you shall dwell
Forever in the flames of hell.”
“I am too young,” she iheu replied,
"My comrades all will mo deride.”
Tbo spirit then hi her farewell,
And soon consigned her soul to hell.
It was not long till death did some,
To call this helpless sinner home;
And when upon her dying bed,
She called her friends and thus she said:
“My friends I bid yon all farewell,
I die. I die, and sink to hell;
There I must stay and scream and roll,
Forever in these flames to dwell.”
Her parents both weeping around
With tears lulling to the ground;
She cried, "dear lather pray for me,
I'm bound for vast eternity.
My weeping mother, fare you well—
The pain I feel no tongue can toll—
0. parents dear, i’ll soon begone;
Your hop* tor me is ever crushed,”
Errors of Matrimony.
The man and woman who marry to¬
gether are bound for life by a solorem
compact. If you strip marriage of all
its sentimental language what is it but a
simple binding arrangmeul between two
persons for the mutual advauiage of
each other! Apart from the natural
instinct that b ings the sexes together,
the ono is looking for a help mate to
add to bis comforts, and tbs other one
to sustain and protect through life
With these they take all the attendant
risks, ana trusting in the lore they bear
io one another, take each other fur bet
ter or lor worse. Unfortunately the
warmth of the honeymoon cannot always
be mtdnraincd; and abiding love must
be bated on muiual resj ect. Nothing
can be more trying to love than the
little faults which crop out after mar¬
riage, but as in a most litteral sense we
must take, one another for better or
for worse we should try to look as kind
ly and leniently on those traits that
give us auuoyanee as wo can, knowing
the better we are able to bear them
and the less we are able to think upon
them, the better it will be for our peace
of mind and happiness. Many marri¬
ages have turned out unhappy because
of the lack of this mutual forbearance.
Young people th ok they have made a
in stake in marriage when the mistake is
ouly iu their own behavior since they
were married. Good husbands make
good wives and good wives make good
husbands; and the scolding or intem¬
perate or slaternly partner often has
but himself to blame for the misery
that clouds the life and desolates the
home. Uultitudes who feel that their
marriage was a mistake, and who make
their existence a life- long misery, might
by a little self denial and forbearance,
and gentlcneis, and old-time courtesy
make their home brighten like the gates
of Eden, amb bring back again the old
love that blessed the happy golden nays
gone bj.
Beauty and style are not the purest
passport to respectability—some of the
noblest specimens of womaDbood the
world has ever seen have presented the
plainest and most unprepossessing ap>
pearance. A woman's worth is to be
estimated by her real goodness of heart
and tho purity and sweetness of her
character; and such a woman, with a
kindly disposition and a well balanced
ioiad and temper is lovely snd attrac¬
tive. Be her face ever so plain and
her form ever so homely, she makes
the beat of wives and the truest of
mothers. She has a higher purpose in
life than the beautiful yet vain and su¬
percilious woman, who has no higher
ambition than to flaunt her finery in the
streets, or to gratify her inordinate van¬
ity by attracting flattery and praise
from a society whose compliments are
as hollow as they are insincere.
OUU OWN SECTION—WE LABOR FOR ITS A f)V ANtLVI£N 1\
CLEVELAND, GA., SATURDAY MOKNING, MAY U, 1881.
A Negro Sermon.
Just over the river from Aguatine is a
black village called “Africa.” It con¬
tains many ebaboy cabins and a church
ot the outward appearance of a narn.
Last Sunday as I was walking out, I fell
in with an old grizzled darkv shambling
along, his legs rather forward of the
center of his feet, and asked him where
he was going. He replied, “leo goin'
to de church, and I’se ’fraid I’ui a leetlo
late ” 1 inquired if the pteacber was a
man of power. He said: "1 don't
knew him mysef; be counts from de
Indian River parts, but I heer ho is tie
giftedest man in de State.’ I thought l
thought I would not lose the opportu¬
nity of hearing so distinguished a puK
pit orator, and wont along witu the old
man. The church was about two-thirds
full of colored people, from gray headed
old graudpap.s and grandmas to rows
of little picauuinnies whose curly pates,
big black eyes and shinlug mouths just
showed above the bench as they looked
around to seo the “buckra” man who
bad come over the river to their church.
Tho preacher sat upon some oioTated
boards, as black a uegroas ever depart¬
ed from “Africa’s euuuy fountains.”
His so-called nose was a barely percep¬
tible eruption upon his face, aud two
little shot holes represented nostrills,
while the vast proportions of his mouth
fully compensated for all diminutions
in other features. He arose, and in a
loud strident tone stumbled slowly and
with many mistakes through a chapter
of Jeremiah, after which the congrega¬
tion, some with sweetuess and some
with scalplifting harshness, sung sever¬
al verses of a bvmu, the chorus of
which was;
Ye darters of Jerusalem coma out de wilderness
Oouie out de wilderness, come out de wilder
ness;
Ye darters af Jerusalem, come out do wilder¬
ness,
Aleanin’on de lamb.
The minister then prayed, first loudly,
then earnestly, and then tumultuously
for a quarter of au hour, beseeching the
Lord among other thiugs, “to unloose
his stammering tongue and gib Ins voice
a heap of power-” After another hymn
came the sermon, and although 1 took
no Dotes, I will try to give you Borne
specimen bricks of the structure:
My tex is in tho 10th oh Matthew, at
the 30th verse: “Butde very bars ob
yer bead ar all numbered." I hopo be¬
fore I gets fro to bring some sinuer ter
whar 1 was fetched ter at a meetin like
dis. It is fourteen years ago last month
sense I quit grubbin’ in do palmetto
stubble ob sin and begin workin' in de
deep loam ob righteousness. Fore den
1 used ter be as lost a sinner as any nig
geron de Indian River. Here warnt no
boys in de gang (et 1 do say it) that could
swar more, chaw more terbacker, driuk
more whiskey, or jerk a chicken off de
roost wid lose noise dan I could. 1 used
to loaf trios' all day and prowl all night
shore. Oue night I went to ’vival meet
in’jes for fun aud ter see do gal . Ac
first a laffed to bear de bruddsrs and
sisters 'sprees dar feeliDS. butde preach¬
er bad ue power ob de eperrit mos’ re¬
markable, and as be bet wid his emo¬
tions I begun ter git kinder Bkeered.
Then I felt sorter creeps run all ober
me, and I tbort the shakes was comm’
on, but then I knew I hadn’t been exs
posed and it warn’t time ob do year for
dem, and Ilka a streek ob ligbtnin’ it
came ober me dat I was gittin’ religion.
I commence ler holier ‘Glory hallelujah,
glory ter God, I’m comiu’!’ and got
down on ter my knees and hollered
more, and den I rolled on de floor and
flung out my arms and legs and kicked
and stamped, for I knew de sperrit ob
de Lord was rattlin’ wid de debit, and
I yelled to de debbil ‘git outer dis yer
chile,' and finally I fainted clean dun
gone away. When I came ter mysef
de brudders and 3isters was strokiu’ me
and sayin* ‘He is saved; de Lord bab
save him,' and I felt qtfiet and soothin’
as tho’ I war drinkin buttermilk, and
dan I know dat my mortal soul war safe
on de top shef, whar de debbil couldn't
nebber reach it no more. De nex’ mors
nin’ i find dat 1 bab los’ my jack-knife
and broke ter main spring ter my watch,
besidee leavin’ a good ombrelier in de
seat which some Christian brudder or
sister has took care on eence, I ’spose
as I iub nebber seen it again, but I
didn't oar, I win more dan I lose, for
I got religion dat night.
But tt>r return ter de word ob de sa¬
cred book, De hars ob yer head ar all
numbered* It is obverous dat do great
Mass don’t continue dis great perticker
larity to de hot man race far we must
look at de hazy word iu de full scope
and we see in de verse before dis dat
not a sparrer falls ter de grouu’ widout
deFadder. So yer se dat de great
Massa count dor hars jess de same od
everything big an’ little as be do wid
mau. Forder is ao doubt about it,
dis am a big job and no raortle man
couldn't do it, l have heerd of a light*
□ in’ figgerer up Noil dat cau couut
faster <lan all de iQturnin’ hoards in do
Souf, but his countin’ ain’t no more to
dia yere iu de lex’dan a fiddle bug to a
black bar, But some ob de big larn’u’
preachers say dat de Lord doa t count
all de hars he has made. Day tiuk he
couldn’t do it. it would take too much
time. Bjt don’t yer bleeve eui, Day
is week in da faith. Whoa dey come
tt r a touga sp it in de holy word day be¬
gin ler ; lay bido ways and ter talk about
wreug translations and do origernal
Greek and all dem dodges. But don’t
yer weaken. I take de scripter joss as
1 fine «ai, and l take em strait and in
de full strength. Now ef deae big book
men dat go prowling off iu do side
trails would let alone ds Tigernal Greek
and stick to do lex dey would have
trouble, it would all come right, for de
tex’ don’t say ho counts all do bars on
eberytiDg, hut only do bars on vie head
ar uumbered. Now mos ebcr> ting don’t
hab much hars ou do Dead such as de
mule and do bar, and djen lots ob tings
like de turtle and do g4terand fish aud
birds don’t hah any, aisd a good many
ob do hoomau family ar babies widout
taar, aud a good many ur bald headed,
and all dat helps, so ej yer stick to de
tex’ yor see it ain’t n« impossible job,
aud de Lord can do it easy. Ho dou’t
count all hars, dat wouldn't be reason¬
able, but l say ter yer don’t go back on
God’s word and dat ill de bars ob de
head ar numbered, lor Ido tex’ says dey
“arc ail uumbered’’ (I: hopo dat little
nigger who is making gat cradles out ob
de shoe string ho has sneaked out ob
dat old man’s sho un&vr do seat will re
member dat God is counting do hars oh
his henu aud knows je:s what game he
is playin’ ) Yes, brudders and sisters,
de great Masse, carps for eberyting.
What make him care for skoeters aud
snakes and fleas aM rgaters is tuor'n
wOmw. Ef-.w*
dem we’d c unit era out, but it is 11
notion and we can't iuterfar. But
yere good God dat counts all do
ob de bed, when ho giuou de odor
is jess as strong agin yer as lie was
yer afore, and ho pums:i jess as
as He love, Mebbe som ob yer
yer l ab been punished iu dis yor
and yer look back and tiuk how
uaudder useter draw yer ober her
and take pine slat and keep comiu' wid
it till it seemed as tho’ she
ueber stop and as of yer was all afire
de pint whar she war workin', but
wasu’c nullin’ butstroberries and cream
tor de fire aud de heat and de pain
de great Massa will give ter do onro
pemant siuuer. lie will keep pilin’ou
Ue tire and surin' in do brimstouo till
dor poor sinner can’t bar it a
mintt and den make him bar it forebber.
A white man de udderday link lie
stumble cause I bain’t no larnin,.
forgot dat all do prophets but ono
from de plowshare and he ax
‘Where did God come from f’ Says 1.
‘Whar did God come from—you ax
dat? Den 1 ax you whar did God
from f* And he said de holy book
God came from-1 forgot de name
place ana de holy one from Mt,-, 1
forgot de name ob de mountain too.
Says I,‘Does descriptors say dat f’
be, Dey do.’ Den says I, 'God bab
right to come from dar. God made
mountain and he hab de right to go dar
ter make it and ef he had de right to
dar ter make it, he had Ue right
come away from dar when he had
done.’ So yer see when de white
tbort he put me iu fie hole be lose
argymeot hisaef*—Florida Cor*
field Republican.
Uiubrclla Language.
To place your umbrella in a rack
dicates that it is about to change
ers
An umorella carried over a
the man gettiug nothing but the drip
pings of tho rain signifies courtship.
Wheu the man has the umbrella
the woman the drippings, it
marriage.
To carry it at right .angles
your arm siguifiies that an eye is to
lost by the man who follows
you.
To put a cotton umbrella by the
of a nice silk une indicates ‘exchange is
no robbery-’
To lend an umbrella indicates ‘I
a fool.'
To carry an open umbrella just
enough to tear out meQ’s eyes
knock off their hats indicates T am
woman,’
Poor and scanty feed makes
cattle, poor manure aud short crops.
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