THE REVISED TESTAMENT IN THE LIMB-KILN CLUB.

Kumara Times, Issue 1574, 13 October 1881, Page 2

THE REVISED TESTAMENT IN THE LIMB-KILN CLUB.

“I take pleasure an’ satisfaction," said the president, as he held up & parcel, “in informin’ you a worthy citizen of Detroit, who does not car’ to have his name menshun’d, has presented dia revised ediahun of de Bible to dd Lime Kiln Club. We do not open our meetings wid. prayer, nor do we close by singin’ de Doxology, but neberdeless I am suah dis gift will be highly appreshiated by all. Dar has bin considerable talk iu dis club .about dis revised edishun. Some of you had got de ideah dat purgatory has all been wiped out an’ Heaben enlarged twice over, ail’ I have heard odders assert dat it did’nt forbid lyin,’ stealin,* and passin’ of bad money. My triends, you are sadly mistaken. Hell is just as hot as eber, and Heaben hasn’t got any mor’ room. In looking oher some of the changes las’ night I selected out a feW paragraphs which have a ginerul b’arin.* For instance, it am jist as wicked to steal waterm.elyons a it was las’ y’ar or de y’ar befo, and de skeercer de crap de bigger de wickedness. No change has bin made in regard to loafin’ aroun’ de streets. De loafer am considered jist as mean an’ low as eber he was, an’ 1 want to add my belief dat he will grow meaner in public estimashun all de time. De ten commandments am all down heah widoat change. Stealin’ and lyin’ and covetin’ an runnin’ out nights am considered jist as bad as eber. I can’t find whar’ a poo’ man, or a poo’ man’s wife, white or black, am ’spected to sling on any partikler style. Dog fights, chicken liftin, polyticks, playin’ keerds fuv ; money an’ bangin’ round fur drinks, an’ all sich low business, am considered meaner dan eber. Fact is, I can’t flu’ any change whatever which lets up on a man from bein’ plumb up an’ squar’ an’ honest wid de world, Dey have changed the word ‘ Hell’ to ‘ Hades,’ but the same time added to the strength of de brimstitn an’ <ie size of de pit, an’ we want td keep right on in de straight path if we would avoid it. Doan’ let dtiy white man make you believe dat we’s lost any Gospel by dis revision, or dat Peter or Paul or Moses have undergone any change of speerit regardin’ de ways of libin’ respectably an’dyiu’ honorably.”— Detroit Free Press.