Christian Messenger. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 9, 1888 Page: 3 of 8
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CHRISTIAN MESSENGER.
PICK UP.
decide between them. They asked me
A darkey preacher from Bath recently
admonished a Geneva audience against
the sin of bribery at elections, as fol-
lows “Dis ting of gittin’ $108 for a vote
is all wrong. Ten dollars is as much as
it is worth.
An infant was crying fretfully in its
mother's arms in a street car the other
day, when she turned to a man at her
side with the request: “ Wud you plaze
to look cross at him, sor; he’ll think
it’s his father and kape sthill.”
Some one threw a head of cabbage at
an Irish orator while he was making a
speech, once. He paused a second and
said, “Gentlemen, I only asked for
your ears; I don’t care for your heads.”
He was not bothered any more during
the remainder of his speech.
President of life insurance company
—Now I’ve caught you, you rascal!
Drop that jewelry or I’ll blow your
brains Jout! Impudent burglar—You
dassent! I’ve got my life insured in
your company for $5000, and it will be
•heaper to let me go—see ?
A London broker received the fol-
lowing order from a lady who desired
to make some pin money: “Dear Sir—
Please buy me 10,000 barrels of oil, at 5s
and sell them at 6s 6d. Remit the dif-
ference, less your commission. Upon
the promptness with which you execute
this order depends my future patronage.
Very respectfully.”
Some Chicago men are raising a fund
of $100,000 to get the tallest obelisk in
the world to add to the glory of Chica-
go. They have no difficulty in obtain-
ing subscriptions. “Cert,” said one
magnate of the pork business, “Fm
your huckleberry for a ^thousand, and
you can put me down for $100 toward
getting a good, strong, ornamental cage
for the critter. There are so many
children playing around the park that
you can’t be too careful.”
• There is a door-walker in one of the
large dry goods houses in this city,
whose great toes point toward each
otherin a^very friendly manner/ ‘What
will you have, madam 1 ” said he to an
Irish woman who was looking hopelessly
around. “Calico.” “Walk this way.”
“Walk that way, is it! Sure, I’d have
you know, sur, that my legs is not built
that way, sur, and I couldn’t walk that
way if you’d give me the whole store,
•nr,” Wl ;
Murray's Magazine tells of eight cats
belonging to a railroad company, that
have under their charge from 100,000 to
400,000 empty com sacks, their busi-
ness being to keep them from mice.
They are given their daily allowance of
milk and cat’s meat at the company’s
expense, and they fully earn their wages.
The writer adds; “The holes in the
sacks, which are eaten by the mice
whiqh^are not eaten by the cats, are
darned by twelve women, who are em
ployed by the company.”
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to preach on this subject. I did so after
a thorough examination of the sacred
Scriptures. As a watchman on the
walls of Zion, It is my privilege and du-1 Jjallas MackUeriy, Mamie Ross, Jack Roes, Cleveland (ling, September Cling, and Renecke Beaches.
ty to instruct my people on all that
God has revealed, and I have as much
right to discuss the rotation of the sun
as any other living man. Had it been
left tome, I should not, probably, h^ve
repeated the sermon, as it had answer-
ed the purpose for which I had prepar-
ed it; but I was urged to repeat it, and
did so. Just there the Rev. Richard
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Wells (colored) attacked me in all the
papers, and said he hoped the colored
people might not all be held responsi-
ble for the Jasperean theory. His ar-
ticle assailing me was copied into the
papers all over the country and into
some in Europe. I resolved then that
I would never have my mouth closed
by Elder Richard Wells; and I have
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much to spite the aforesaid Elder Rich- the following prices :
ard Wells, as to satisfy the great mul-
titude who have been eager to hear this
discohrs^ I have had distinguished
men to hear me, representing every part
of the civilized globe, and, almost with-
out exception, they have come forward
and congratulated me, and assured me
that I had made good my position, that
the sun do move. One man told me
that he had come 23,000 miles to hear
me, and that he felt fully repaid for the
journey by the light poured upon this
great problem of the sun. Fer many
preachers are what I would call Dood-
lebug preachers. You know what a
doodlebug is, and possibly have seen the
the doodlebug, called up out of his bed
in the earth. There are doolebug' preach-
ers who have no backbone ; but John
Jasper is not one of that‘crowd. I
stand by my convictions—I can’t be
laughed down, as Elder Richard Wells
very well knows. Two hundred times
I have stood up to explain and defend
the rotary motion of the sun, and to
rescue the word from philosophers, who
might better be called foolosiphers ;
and I propose tb continue in the goof*
work. I have been blowing the gospel
trnmpet forty nine years, and I hope
to blow on for some years to come; I
am too near my grave to be much con-
cerned about pleasing man. Many aim
at that, and nothing else. They will
change a caterpiller to a cat, if it pays
them to do so.”
Thenam* of John Jasper is more
widely know than that of any other
preacher, white or colored, in Rich-
mond. He gives ns the following:
“I have preached my sermon of the
'Rotation of the Sun’ two hundred
timet. You would probably like to
know how I was led to preach on that
subject, and I will tell you. It so hap
petted that two young men in my con
grep&on had a stiff controversy as to
whether the sun do move or not; and,
finally, they agreed to leave it to me to
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Burnett, Thomas R. & Wilmeth, C. M. Christian Messenger. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 9, 1888, newspaper, May 9, 1888; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth921796/m1/3/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bonham Public Library.