Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1909 — Colored Philosophy. [ARTICLE]

Colored Philosophy.

A colored minister was trying to prove to his congregation that Moses, Peter, and the rest of the Bible characters were all colored men, because he argued it would he impossible for people to live in such a hot climate, and out in the sun -sHthoht their skin becoming black. [ A practical colored man in the congregation did not agree with the pastor of the flock, and he got up and said so. “Well, why do you think Uam wrong?” asked the pastor. “Why, sir, Peter was no colored man ‘cause if he were- he certainly would had that ’er chicken ’fore it crowed three times.”