HE WAS TOO LIBERAL.
In the churches for colored people, in some part of the United States, when 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 forwardand put their contributions into it. A writer in " Christian " says : " I had slipped into a back seat of a large African Church, at Columbia, S.C 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 forward and 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 bis heel and started back, 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 ?" :la.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1904, 15 June 1892, Page 4
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192HE WAS TOO LIBERAL. Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1904, 15 June 1892, Page 4
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