Now I axes ebery one
ob you all wot know de Scripters ef he don' 'member how de Bible tells
how our Lor' when he was on dis yearth cas' seben debbils out o' Mary
Magdalum?"
A murmur of assent came from the congregation. Most of them remembered
that.
"But did enny ob you ebber read, or hab read to you, dat he ebber cas'
'em out o'enny udder woman?"
Negative grunts and shakes of the head signified that nobody had ever
heard of this.
"Well, den," said the preacher, gazing blandly around, "all de udder
women got 'em yit."
A deep silence fell upon the assembly, and in a few moments an elderly
member arose. "Brudder Pete," he said, "I reckin you mought as well gib
out de hyme."
SECOND EXPOSITION: GRANDISON'S QUANDARY.
Grandison Pratt was a colored man of about thirty, who, with his wife
and two or three children, lived in a neat log cabin in one of the
Southern States. He was a man of an independent turn of mind, and he
much desired to own the house in which he lived and the small
garden-patch around it. This valuable piece of property belonged to Mr.
Morris, and as it was an outlying corner of his large farm he had no
objection to sell it to Grandison, provided the latter could pay for it;
but of this he had great doubts. The man was industrious enough, but he
often seemed to have a great deal of difficulty about paying the very
small rental charged for his place, and Mr.
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