Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1911 — SITUATION OF SOME DANGER [ARTICLE]

SITUATION OF SOME DANGER

United Prayer* of Colored Congregation Should Be of Significance to Mr.' Davis. * Colored folks down in Quitman. Qa.. are agog over a novel prayer teat in one of their churches. The congregation at this house of worship “has It ln“ for a man named Daria, “an ornery piece of white L trash," as they allege, who has been trying to get their services suppressed under the ordinance against unnecessary noises. Davis complains that the darkles pray and sing so loud that he and his family can’t sleep, and the colored flock retort that they are on their own premises and propose to run their services so that the Lord can hear them. The authorities have notified the church people to make less noise under penalty, whereupon the latter, in reprisal, have been holding prayers tor the death of Mr. Davis, which event la now scheduled to take place ta about three weeks. If the prayers It to be a pretty ticklish situation for Mr. Davis, since there must durate and go on living, some zealous

parishioner, anxious to demonstrate the direct efficacy of prayer, will lay for him with a gun. But at all events, as the scheduled day draws nigh the congregation is redoubling its prayers for Mr. Davis* demise and special meetings are now held twice a week- Such piety ought to Impel Mr. Davis to capitulate or move out As Tom Sawyer's friend, Huck Finn, once remarked, "when a nigger does get religion he gets it hard.”—Milwaukee Sentinel.