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Show In Time of Due Prepare for Drought.. Brother Casslus Cautious Kusb came forward to be baptized at the colored campmeetlng. The parson was tired of baptizing Brother Cassius and said: "Waff oh you always come forward to be baptized into the fold? You done been baptized 17 times, l'se baptized bap-tized you my own self very fall since the big woods burned and Marse Hon-eycutt Hon-eycutt died Com ober-exenin' hisself. Ain't dat de truf?" "Amen," said Cassius. "How many times you-all expect to be baptized, dat's what I ax ye?" "1 reckon," replied Cassius Cautious Kush, "I'll be baptized every year. De oftener 1 gets dis mortal clay soaked down, de safer I'll be from sparks on dat great day when de world am all on fire. Hallelujah!" Judge. |