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New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 762, 3 August 1853, Page 3

A Negro Sermon.—Truth in Homely Guise. —The discourse from which the annexed passage is taken was actually preached in the town of Zansville, Ohio, some"years ago: —"My dear frens and bredreß," said the preacher, " de soul of de brack man is dear to de Lord as de soul ob de white man. Now you all see Judge Harper, a sittin dab leanin' on his gold-headed cane; you all know the judge, niggers, and beryfine man he is, too. Well, now, I'se gwine to make a little comparishment. Supposin de judge, some fine iiiornin.' put his basket on his arm, and he goes to market to buy a piece of meat. He soon finds a nice fat piece of mutton, and trots off wtu it. Do yon s'pose the judge would stop to 'quire wedder dat mutton was ob a white sheep or a brack sheep? Xo, nutiin ob de kind: if de mutton was nice and fat, it would be all de same to de judge. He would not stop to ask wedder de sheep had white wool or brack wool. Weil, just so it is, my frens, wid our Hebenly Marster. He does not stop to ax wedder a soul 'longs to a white man or a brack man: wedder his head is kivvered wid straight liar, or kivvered wid wool. De question he will ax will be, 'lsdisagood soul r an' if so, de Marster will say, 'Enter inte de joy ob our Lord, an' set down on de same bench wid de white man : yo'se all on a perfect quality." • A merican paper. A word to Apprentices.—Apprenticeship is the most important state through which a mechanic is called to pass ; it is emphatically the spring season of his days, the time when he is sowing the seed, the fruits of which he is to reap in after years. If he spare no labour in its proper, culture, he is sure of obtaining an abundant harvest; but if, in the culture of the mental soil, he follows the example of many in tilling the earth, and carelessly and negligently does his work, like them he will find the seeding time past, and his ground bringing forth only weeds and briars. Let the young apprentice bear in mind, when he commences learning any business, that all hopes of success in the future are doomed to fade like the morning mist, unless he improves the golden season. Let him bear in mind that he can becom.fi master of his business only through the closest application, and the most persevering industry, and that unless he does master it, he may bid farewell to all visions of future prosperity and success. The apprentice is the foundation of the great mechanical edifiee, and surely if the foundation of a structure be not firm, the structure itself crumbles and falls to the earth. •.

The Man who made the Di ke ketreat. —At Strathfieldsay to this day they tell a story of a rebuff which the Duke met with. The Duke was following the neighbouring subscription pack, when he came up to a five-bar gste leading into a field of newly-sown wheat. He was not fond of flying over timber, and was leaning forward to open the gate with his hunting whip, when an old farmer made his appearance on the other side, pitchfork in hand, and said " Ud be denged if 'ml let anybody ride over this wheat." The Duke was unable to convince the rustic of the new doctrine that riding over young wheat does more good than harm, and he good naturedly turned round and rode the other way. One of the hunters who sat by asked friend Giles whether lie knew who it war he had treated so unccrenwniously ! "Oh, yes; I know'd on ; Boneparty couldn't stop 'un, but I did."

Ghatifvino Change ok Fobti'NK.—A poor old cooper, cfOllirioii Notts, who, for several year*, Las deservedly earned bis bread by the sweat of bis brow, has, we are informed, by a late d -cisi'm of the Court of Chancery, been declared entitkd to property to the extent of £30,000.