Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1912 — New Way to Get Money. [ARTICLE]

New Way to Get Money.

There are many ways to get money from people, and In these days when it is often necessary to raise various sums for missionary and other church work, the ministers of the gospel ihake all sorts of moving appeals. But the preacher who takes the prize In this line of endeavor so far is an old colored man down soiith. “We has a collection to take np dls mawnin,” he said; “a collection for a mos’ Important cause, an* we needß as much money as we kin git But foh de sake of your reputations, whichever of you stole Mr. Jones’ turkeyß don’t put nothin’ in de plate.” That was how he got money out of every member of his congregation. —Popular Magazine.