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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 154, 8 May 1879, Page 3

A Negro preacher of Georgia is reported as kvmg recently addressed his audience «i, , 8 tevms of plain-dealing:— JJredden, my 'sperienco is dat it ain't the perfession of 'ligion, but de 'casional practice of it dat makes a man 'ceptable up yonder When ye gits to de golden gate, an 1 eter ,ooks ye right in de eye, ana yer snows liim yer long creed and says pompous-like, dat yer 'longed to do bi» I iscolopian Church, de 'postle 'll shako us head an' say,' Dat aint nuff ter get yer through. But if yer takes all yer bills under yer ann, yer grocer bills 'an yer lent bill, an he looks 'em over an' finds em all receipted, he'llsay,' Yer titles clear,' an unlock de gate an'let yer pitch yer voice for de angels' song. But it ain't no trabbel along dat narror path 'less yer carry, folded up in yer creed, a oond recmendation from yer creditors. Hebpen aint no place for a man who has to dodge roun a corner for fear of meeting some one who'll ask for dat little bill dat never was paid. A lady with a faint squint came once to a fashionable artist for her portrait. He looked at her and she looked at him. and both were embarassed. He spoke first. } ou d your ladyship permit me," he > said, _to take the portrait in profile 1 ' mere is a certain shyness about one of your ladyship's eyes which is as difficult in art as it is fascinating in nature."