Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1879 — Too Heavy for Him. [ARTICLE]

Too Heavy for Him.

This comes from Waterford, Loudon county, Va.: A colored meeting was lately held, in this place, at which the attendance was large and the converts numerous. The stove-pipe happening to fall, the minister asked one of the bredderin to put it in position again. Brother Johnson essayed to do it, but, being rather slow, the old minister said, “Pick it up, brudder, pick it up; de Lord won’t let it burn you.” " Brother Johnson, with faith in the assurance, seized the hot pipe, and, of course, had his hands blistered. He dropped it with the inappropriate remark, “De dibbil he won’t!” It was just a little heavy for him.— Harper’s Magazine for February.

As Chinese children are not permitted to enter the San Francisco public schools, those who have embraced Christianity are taught in the Union mission in the old Globe Hotel. The school has two sessions, one .conducted by an American woman, the other by Hung Mung Chung, a fine Chinese scholar, and said to be a lineal descendant of Confucius. Last year Hung Mung Chung was baptized and became a member of the Protestant Church for Chinese. Each session of the school is closed by singing and repeating the Lord’s prayer—in the morning in English, in the afternoon in Chinese.