Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1890 — A Darky’s Faith in Miracles [ARTICLE]

A Darky’s Faith in Miracles

In Znnesville, Ohio, there are many colored peoplq who live by harboring and other light work. The} are for the most part an orderly and quiet people, many of them religious, having a church of their own and a minister, of nil of which they are justly proud. One cold evening.in the time of a gient revival in this church this preacher was delivering a powerful appeal ou "faith,” the groins and sobs of his hearers giving token of his effect upon their irrepressible natures. The tenrs stood upon his own dark cheeks, his voice quivered like distant thunder, while be emphasized his words by \igorous blows upon the table. In the midst of all this the stove, agitated by his jarring blows, ro’lsd over on the floor. Brother Lewis, the head man in the church, had located himself near the comforter of shins. He stood irresolute when the voico of the minister came to him laden with faith: “Pick np de stobe, Brudder Lewis—pick up de stobe; do Lord won't let it burn yon!” Brother Lewis’ mind was filled with miracles of fsith he had heard that evening, so he yielded to the appeal of the preacher, grabbed tho hot stove, but dropped it instantly, and, turning his reproachful eves to the disciple of faith, replied: “De debble He won’t!” Miss Alice Elliott, of Ottawa, Ont., aged 23 yenrs, while suffering from dementia, swallowed a small penknife with the blades open. So far she has expsrienced no unpleasant results, but her physician is watching the case with great anxiety.