Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1912 — POINTED WAY TO SALVATION [ARTICLE]

POINTED WAY TO SALVATION

Preacher's Advice Wae All Right but Hie Friend Abe Had Something to Say. Senator Samuel A. Ettelson, speaking recently at a banquet, told the following: “A colored preacher stood up on a Sunday and said, ‘My text this morning, brothers and sisters, am “What shall I do to be saved#’ To me there seems only one way tq be saved, and that am to quit this’ere extravagant living. Back to the simple life, say i. There am going to be no chance for you to be saved so long as you keep up “this high living. If there is anything that is going to kill our race it is these’ere luxuries. Better go hungry and cold like the wolf. Go but and face the rains and fight the storms. Go wade like the crane. You will grow rugged and you will grow tough, but you’ll walk like a man. Yes, sir, that am de way to salvation, that am de way to get saved.’ “Just then a tall colored man, rising from his pew in the rear of the church. Interrupted the preacher, shouting: ‘This am no way to be-saved shouting: This am no way to be saved. You just jump right through that back window and run just as fast as your legs will carry you, for the county sheriff am here with a warrant for your arrest for stealing them chickens from Massa Martin’s coop last Friday night’”—Chicago Tribune.