Show SERMONS OF UNCLE RUFUS gift of eloquence possessed by illiterate darky near my home over in virginia says the business woman there la Is a small baptist church where every sunday a negro negra called uncle rutus rufus bleaches pl eaches I 1 have lave always suspected that uncle rutus rufus know how to read though lie he wont confess it I 1 am sure ills his eldest daughter selects his texts for him hut but I 1 dare tell tel him I 1 think so lie came to see me ma the last time I 1 was at home and I 1 promised to send him a new neve bible from washington his last name Is robertson or Robin nion bon and when I 1 was asking how I 1 should address the package I 1 inquired how bow he spelled his name uncle rufus to be caught by tiny any such transparent trick as that well miss betty he be said 1 I aint aboin to tell you how I 1 spells IL 11 you jest es spell it the way you likes best I 1 certainly aint going to dictate to a lady 1 I went once to hear bear uncle rutus rufus preach a funeral sermon says the same bame woman it was a flowery ad eloquent address garn garnished ishad vita many quotations uncle rutus rufus referred touchingly to the untimely taking off of the deceased and to the ways of providence are beyond mortal coin comprehension sherely Sh orely my friends said he be what the poet says li 19 a fact god moves in a misch mischievous levou way his wonders to reform wash washington I 1 agton post |