Salt Lake Herald | 1890-12-07 | Page 1 | Learing to Read

LEARNING TO READ The Great Joy of 3 Negro Who Through Prayer Learned to Had His Bible Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch JACKSONVILLE Fla Dec 6 Samuel Rowth employed in the lumber yards of John De rocher has always taken great interest in religious matters but his greatest drawback was the fact that he could not read Mr Dc rocher was much surprised the other morning when he noticed Sam exceedingly happy With great exultation he told Derocher he could read and upon being furnished with a Bible read with ease Sam is well known and this caused great excitement Sam told your correspondent I never had any education and envied the ministers and I determined to learn to read I studied and studied but it was all Greek to me 1 never could learn one ord so 1 took to my knees and prayed t be made able to read 1 prayed and prayed every night on my Knees asking God to teach me The other nignt 1 felt a curious feeling I as if an old rag was being oausdJ unwrapped from around my head and something some-thing told me I could read so I got a Bible of a neighbor and all was plain I can read it plainly and can pronounce all the words right oeverybody in prayer tells me DI tell you boys I believe Derocher his employer says Sam is a truth ful darkey polite and industrious and was lever detected in anything wrong I Is welt I known that Sam could not read a few days ago ag and now he can read well