AMUSING SCENE IN CHURCH.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 22, Issue 66, 25 August 1911, Page 2

AMUSING SCENE IN CHURCH.

In the churches for coloured people in some parts of the South in the United States, when a collection is to be taken, the box, instead of being passed from pew to pew, is deposited upon a table in front of the pulpit, and the brethren and sisters are exhorted to come forward and put their contributions into it. A writer in a contemporary says : I had slipped into a back seat of a large African church at Columbia, S. 0., one Sunday evening, and was watching the taking of the offertory, when one of the deacons, with that tact which belongs to almost all the coloured race, came and politely offered to carry up for me any contribution which I cared to make. I handed him a twenty-five-cent piece, and, with Inimitable pomposity, he marched down the long aisle, carrying the beggarly coin so that everybody could see it. Suddenly he turned on his heel, and started hack, while the curious eyes of the crowd all turned to follow him. Arrived within speaking distance, the good old man called out, in a whisper audible to half the congregation, '“Do you want any change ?”