Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1886 — Sized Him Up. [ARTICLE]

Sized Him Up.

This is a story which the Rev. Dr. Rush, Secretary of the Freedmen’s Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, tells to the annual conference, before whom he presents the claims of his society. A young negro in the South had been converted and at once wanted to preach. His elders thought he was not fitted for the important work; but he well-nigh staggered them by relating a vision, in which he had plainly seen the letters “G. P.C.,” which could mean only “Go preach Christ.” A white-haired negro preacher slowly arose and told the ambitious young brother that while he had, no doubt, seen the letters in a vision, he had failed in the interpretation. They probably meant: “Go pick cotton,” or “Go plant corn.” This* settled the matter. A preacher in the New York Conference, when the story was told a few days ago, remarked to a friend sitting near: “I wish we had men in our white conferences sharp enough to explain away as a itisfactorily the arguments by which our young incompetents try to convince the committee that they have been called to preach the gospel.” —New York Tribune. “Yes,” said the lecturer on moral science, “there are several classes of people who do not bear prosperity, the largest of which is composed of "those who never got a chance to bear it.” A married woman lasts longer than a single one, because she is husbanded.