THE GREATEST WALK ON RECORD.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3611, 23 July 1880, Page 3

THE GREATEST WALK ON RECORD.

Rev. Bro. Bell, of the Coloured Bethel Church of Washington, made the walking mania the subject of his discourse a few nights ago, and showed that we of this day are bat poor, weak imitators at best, even in "pedal movements/ To show his hearers that these latter day walks are of small moment, and sinful, he said be would " compar' dem with one pufformanee dat tuk place thousands of years ago. It waz the greatest sportin' match, as dey calls it, dat eber come off on de face ob dis yearf. Now, jess turn ober your Bibles, my friends, an' look at fift chapter of Genesis, twentysecond vass, an' what do you fine P Why ' you line dat ' Enoch—walked—wid — < Godl (after he begatted Meetoosaly)— three hundred years!' Dar was a walk for you! Jess abut yonr eyes an' 'fleet on it! Three—hundred—years! Talk 'bout yo* " fizzikle ondoorance' after dat!, But dat ain't all ob it. If you'll jess look at de tweDty-fourth vass ob de same i chapter, you will fine, my b'loved frens, what an orful warning is in dat vass to yo' foolish creatures who has the concit to make onekal matches. Did any good come ob de ole man Enoch's ffalk ? Did he make eny ting ouden it? No! my brethern an' sisters.. No! He loss by it—loss eberything l»y it—neber 'pered in de ring again—in fack he went up. Jess read de vass :—• An'—Enoch—walked wid—God-—an'—he—was—not;' (dat is he warn'tnowhare) • for tuck him.' 'God tuck him!' To be shnah he tuck him! He rheld but for a long time, de ole man did; he was game to de last; j he was doing his level best, but ' Ole Master' tuck him on de last roun'. Yes,.j my b'loved fren's, and he'll take anybody dat tries dat game on him, and histe him^j ' higherin' a kite,' jess as he did Ole Boss Enoch. So take warnin' by dis orful lesson; let all dis kind of foolishness alone, an'tend to yo' proper eallin't like good G^Ujstuns. An' now let us pray."—Exchange.