Duchesne Record | 1910-03-25 | Page 2 | Where She Had Heard It

WHERE SHE HAD HEARD IT Mrs. Jackson Quite Confident She Had Picked Out a Biblical Name for Her Boy. The late Bishop Galller was once asked to baptize a negro baby boy. "Name this child," he said, addressing address-ing Mrs. Jackson, the mother of the black mite. "Hallud." "That's a strange name. Mrs. Jack-on," Jack-on," remarked the bishop, hesitatingly. hesi-tatingly. "Scripture name," rejoined the happy mother, with a confident grin. "I never saw it in the Bible." "Why, bishop, how, kin yuh stan' up dar kiddin' a ole Ignorant niggah laik I is? Yuh says dat name whenevah yuh says de Lawd's prayer 'Hallud be thy name!"' Success Magazine.