Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1881 — Changed His Religion. [ARTICLE]

Changed His Religion.

“I’ll be dinged es I doan bl’eve in do predespemation doctrine,’ remarked Wooly Calvin, the preacher, to a party of brethren. 1 “On what fabricationmont ob theoeticalism do yer place de sinews ob yer rationsination?” asked Toney, the philosopher. “Gim me dem words so I can committal dem to understandin’, Tony,” requested Calvin, turning with a beseeching expression. “Nor, sir,” said the philosopher with emphasis. “I got my lamin’ by de sweat of my brbw at a night school über a libery stable, an’ I doesn’t purpose ter gin hit away fur nothin’. When I flings out anythin’, an* yer can ketch hit, all right, but doan ax me ter make yer a present ob my incyclopoodia. ” . “Scuze me, Toney, I din’t tend ter rob yer. But ez ter dut predcsporhfttioii business. In my church, fur I’se a pizen Methodist, I hez al’ers faut dat doctrine. Now, I hez been ’vinced ob hit an’will hab ter change my ’ligion. I’ll tell yer how I wuz ’vinced. Yisterdny mornin’ wjhen I came along down do street I thought dis way ter myself: ‘Now,’ sez I, ‘ef hit is tended for me ter get drunk ter day, I’se urjg.vine ter do hit.” * ’ , , * • “Wall, how did dat prube de doctrine ob predespernatiou?" “I got drunk.”