Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1881 — Brother Gardner on the New Edition. [ARTICLE]

Brother Gardner on the New Edition.

Detroit Free Press, “I take pleasure an’ satisfaction,” said the president, as he held up a parcel, “in informin’you a worthy citizen .of Detroit, who does not care to have his name menshun’d, has presented dis revised edition ob de Bible to de Lime Kiln Club. We do not open our meetn’s wid prayer, nor do we close by singin’ de doxolcjgy, but nebberdeless I am suah dis gift will be highly appreciated by all. Day has been considuble talk in dis club about dis revesi edichun. Some ob you has got the Idea dat purgatory is all wiped out and heaben enlarged twice Ober, an’ I hao’ herred odders assert dat it didn’t forbid lyin’, stealin’, and passin* ob bad meney. My frien’s, you is sadly mistaken. Hell is jist as hot as eber, an’ heaben hasn’t got any mo’ room. In lookin’ ober some of the changes last night I selected out a few paragraphs which hab a general b’arin’. Fur instance, it am j Ist as wicked to steal watermelyons as it was las’ y’ar, or de y’ar befo’, and the skeercer de crap de bigger de wickedness. “No change has been made in regard to loafin’ aroun’ de streets. De loafer am considered jist as low an’ mean as eber he was, an’ I want to add my belief dat he will grow meaner in public estimashun all de time. “De ten commandments am all down heah widout change. Stealin’ an’ lyin’ an’ covetin’,aud runnin’ out nights am considered jist as bad as eber. “I can’t find any paragraph in which men am excused from payin’ deir hones* debts an’ supportin’ deir families.

“I can’t fin, whar a poo’ man or a poo’ mans wife, white or black, am ’spected to sling ou any ’ticular style. “Dog fights, chicken liftin’, politics, playin’ keerds fur money, an’ bangin’ arouu’ fur drinks, au’ all sich low his ness am considered meaner dan'elwr. Fact is, I can’t find any. There anno changes wbateber which lets upon a man from plum up an’ down squar an’ hones’ wid the wort’. Dey have changed the word'liell’ to ‘hades,’ but at de same time added to de strength ob de brimstone au’ size ob de pit. We want to keep on in de straight path if we would avoid it.—Don’t let any white man make you l«elieve dat we’s los’ any gospel by dis revision, or dat Peter Or Paufor Moses hab undtrsone5 one any changas obsperrjt regardin’ e ways oblibiu’ respectably and dyin’ honably.