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Show POINTED WAY TO SALVATION Preacher's Advice Was All Right but His Friend Also Had Something Wie to Say. Senator Samuel A. Ettelson, speaking speak-ing recently at a banquet, told the following: fol-lowing: "A colored preacher stood up on a Sunday and said. 'My text this morning, morn-ing, brothers and sisters, am "What shall I do to be saved?'' To me there seems only one way to be saved, and that am to quit thls'ere extravagant Jiving. Back to the simple life, say I. There am going to be no chance for you to be saved so long as you keep tip this high living. If there is anything any-thing that is going to kill our race it is these'ere luxuries. Better go hungry hun-gry and cold like the wolf. Go out and face the rains and fight the storms. Go wade like the crane. You will grow "rugged and you will grow-tough, grow-tough, but you'll walk like a man. Yes, sir, that am de way to salvation, that am de way to get saved.' "Just then a tall colored man, rising ris-ing from his pew in the rear of the church, interrupted the preacher, shouting: 'This am no way to be saved. You just jump right through that back window and run just as fast as your legs will carry you, for the county sheriff am here with a warrant for. your arrest for stealing them chickens from Massa Martin's coop last Friday night.' " Chicago Tribune. |