Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1879 — A First-Rate Chance to Marry. [ARTICLE]

A First-Rate Chance to Marry.

A negro minister who married sooner after the death of his wife than some of the sisters thought becoming, excused himself as follows: , “My dear brederen and sisters, my grief was graeter than I could bear. I turned elwry way for peace and comfort, but □onecame. I sought the Scriptures from Ginißee to Rebelalion and found plenty of promises to de widder, but nary 'one to de widderer. So I took it dat de Lord didn't waste sympathy on a man when it was in his power to comfort hisself; at d habbln a ftws-rate chance to marry in de Lord, I did so, and would do so again. Besides, bredered, II oousider dat poor Pntsey ***** Joss as dead as she would eber be.”—Logansport Jourifkl.