Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1893 — Pertinent Question. [ARTICLE]

Pertinent Question.

Old Aunt Dinah was a colored woman, who had a remarkably strong voice, and would sing and cry “glory" with such vigor as to be heard above all the rest of the congregation, but she was of an unpleasantly “saving” disposition. It was the custom at the missionary meetings of the church she attended to take up a collection during the singing of the hymn, “Fly abroad, thou mighty gospel!" in the midst of which Aunt Dinah threw back her head, closed her eyes, and sang away at the top of her lungs till the plate had passed her by. The collector, who was a man of plain speech, observed this habit of the old woman’s, and one evening when he came to her seat he stopped short, and, surveying her rapt countenance, said, bluntly: “Look a-hea, yo’ Aunt Dinah! What's de good ob yo’ a-singin’ an* a-singin’, ‘Fly abroad, thou mighty gospel,’ es you doan’ gib nuffln to to niiake her fly?”