THE COLOURED PARSON.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3008, 24 October 1891, Page 5 (Supplement)

THE COLOURED PARSON.

There was a quaint old coloured preacher in one of the Southern States some time ago who wa3 very adaptable to circumstances.

He had a olass of twenty or so little boys to whom ho used to givo Bible lessons on Sunday afternoons. It wag his practico to give out on one Sunday the lessons prepared for the next. The old man was a little blind and a good bit deaf, and this fact induced the young follows to put up a joko upon hire. In his absence they glued two pages of the Biblo together, and on tho following Sunday waited eagerly to seo how their little game would work. Tho Minister put on his "specs," and, giving a sympathetic glace at his class, opened the Bible at the passage about Nonh's ark, and began to read. Ho spelled out the lesson to the end of the page—" and Noath took with him into the ark ouo of every kind," and bo on, " and one wife." and turning over continued, -'she was 142 cubits long and fifty wide, built entirely of cypress wood and pitched inside and out." •' Foh de Lawd's sake ! What a woman!" exclaimed the old darkey, glancing wonderingly over the book at hi* grinning class. He paused and pondered over the 'wonderful dimensions of Noah's wifo for many minutes and then paid. "Boys, we musn't douht anytliin' tho Good Book says, but take it with the other passage furder on,_ which days • We are fearfully and wonaerfully made.'"