A BAPTISM.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 442, 13 November 1875, Page 3

A BAPTISM.

(New York Weekly.) Some of our worthy coloured brethren of the Baptist persuasion had a baptism down at the creek last Sunday, and the ceremony attracted a very large crowd of people. Mrs Pitman’s coloured servant girl was very anxious to be present, and, as it was not her Sunday out, she slipped away from the house while the dinner was cooking, and went around in her working clothes. Her interest was so intense that she stood close to the minister, who was in the water, while the ceremony proceeded. After six or seven had been dipped, the clergyman, tilled with enthusiasm, seized her and pulled her into the water. She resisted, but the minister imagined that she was afraid of the coldness cf the water, so before she could explain the situation he soused her. She came up spluttering, and exclaimed, What you doin’ ? Lemme go, ( tell you !” but he exerted his strength, and sent her “ ker-chuck” below the surface again. She emerged, clawing the air wildly and shouting, “ G’way from here ! Don’t you chuck me under ag’n, you nigger !” But the clergyman was inexorable, and he plunged her under a third time, and held her there for.a minute, so as to let it soak in' and [do her good. Then she oaine up and struck for the shore, and standing there, looking like a draggled mermaid cut in ebony, she shook her list at the astonished pastor, and shrieked :—“ Oh, I’ll lix you; i’ll bust the head offeu you, you or’nary thrash ! sousin’ mein that dare creek and nearly drownded me, ‘when you knowed well enough all de time dat I’se a Methodist, and been christened by dem dat’s year's betters, and knows more about religion den all de Baptisses dat ever shouted, you mis’able black scum ! I’ll see what de law kin do for you ] I’ll have you rested this very day, or my name’s not Johanna Johnson, you woollyheaded herrin’ ! You hear me ?” Then Johanna went home to re-dress, and the ceremony proceeded. Miss Johnson is now persuaded that the Baptists are not agy better than Pagans.