THE RESURRECTION FROM A. NIGGER POINT OF VIEW.

Southland Times, Issue 899, 14 February 1868, Page 3

THE RESURRECTION FROM A. NIGGER POINT OF VIEW.

The following is a story told by the Bishop of Tennessee at the Church Congress as showing the education of a plantation preacher. He said: — "I was visiting a plantation, and the bell was rung, and the negroes, numbering some 500, gathered in the parlors and piazza of the house, belonging, unfortunately for himself, to a bachelor. After reading a chapter to them I preached, and said that I would hold a service the next day to baptize such as should be presented. I baptized between seventy and eighty, and after a service, I fell into conversation with 'Uncle Tony,' a plantation preacher. I asked him about various Christian doctrines, and finally said, 'And what about the resurrection? With very solemn face he replied, ' You see, master, intment is intment.' ' Yes.' ' "Well, you see dere is a speritual body, and dis here body made out ot dusY 'Yes.' '.Well, you see, when de angle Gabriel comes down from Heaben, and goin' up and down the riber Jordan, a-blowin' of his trumpet, and de birds of Heaben singia', and de bells of Heaben ringin', and de milk and de honey rainen' down on all de hills of Heaben, he will bring de speritual body wid him down Heaben, and take dis here body up out of de dus', and tak' the intment and rub it on, den stick togedder — and dar dey is.' "