THE REASON WHY "BRUDDER DICKSON" LEFT THE CHURCH.
Mr. Dickson, a colored. barber in one of the large New England towns, was shaving one of his customers, a respectable citizen, one morning, when a conversation occurred between them respecting Mr. Dickson "s former connection with a colored church in that place. " I believe you are connected with the church in Elm-street ? Mr. Dickson," said the customer. "No, sah, not at all." "What, are you not a member of the African church ?" " Not dis year, sah." " Why did you leave the communion, Mr. Dickson ? if I may be permitted to ask ?" " Why, I tell you, sah," said Mr. Dickson, strapping a concave razor, on the palm of his band. "It was jees like dis-—I jitied dat church iri: good faif, De fust year, I gib ten dollars toward de stated, preachin' of de gospil, and de church peepil call me Brudder Dickson-—de second year my business not good, an' I only; gib five dollars. ■ Dat year de church peepil call me Mister Dickson. Dis razor hurt you, sah ?"
"No, the razor goes tolerably well." "Well, sah, de third year I feel berry poor, sickness, in my.family—and I didn't gib nuffin for preachin'. Well sah,arter dat dey call me 'ole nigger Dickson,' an' 1 left'em!" V
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Colonist, Volume II, Issue 174, 21 June 1859, Page 4
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214THE REASON WHY "BRUDDER DICKSON" LEFT THE CHURCH. Colonist, Volume II, Issue 174, 21 June 1859, Page 4
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