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Show COLORED MINISTE&S' ECCERTEICI- Tho colored man, when he turns preacher, usually gojs outside, the boaten rui material traclc, and develops devel-ops eome eccentricity or hobby which ' he ridea to the neglect of the orelio- 1 ary pious dulios of the gospel ex- I pounder. Some years ago a religiously 1 inclined ex-plautation hand had him-aolf him-aolf ordained to the ministry, and Boon oreated much enthusiasm in his neighborhood. Negroes flocked to his church to hear him preach, and it was not long before there was a heavy demand upon him to lead the converted down into the waters oi baptism. One or two of bis converts having beeu guilty of backsliding, the negro conceived it to be his duty to prevent any others from going astray a (tor he had once got them into the right path. In pursuance of this idea, when the next Binner professed repentance and presented himself for baptism, the colored divine took him to the water and by main forao held him until life was estinot, determined that he should die in the faith. The people theroupon hung the eccentric preacher just as if he had been guilty of murder, instead of saving (be soul of a negro. Now, the bobby of Brother Jasper, the Richmond colored divine, is to upset our Bolar system and straighten- out astronomers and star-gazers, "Da sun do move," is Jasper's eccentricity, and it has driven him out of his church and pulpit and quartered him upon an aged and infirm mothor. Kev. Enoch; Navin, a negro minister of Tennessee, Tennes-see, baa also developed peculiarities which have brought him to grief. In a fit of religious enthusiani the other day he tore up some rails, ran an engine ofl the track, and theu entered I his church and with a crowbar under took to bcal sin and iniquity out of the congregation. The latter were ! not prepared for such violent ealva- tion, and therefore fled in dismay. J However, two of the parishioners undertook to arguo the point with Brother Navin, and one of them wkb promptly floored by a blow from the orowbar. The energetic minister was about to use ibid same knockdown knock-down argument in dealing with the other, but before he could bring it fairly into play the rebellious indi-yidual indi-yidual ehot the negro preacher in the abdomen. It is evident from these cases that the colored ministers will have to follow nearer the example set by their white brethren of the cloth, and not make such violent innovations, or our Buble divines will aoon go out of existence. |