p. 224 | DIDN'T LOSE HIS ’LIGION by Editor

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · April 1, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 14

DIDN'T LOSE HIS ’LIGION.

By Editor

We commend the following item to the consideration of that Episcopal pastor, and all others like him, who advocate theater-going and other worldly indulgences, as set forth in our last issue. We agree with the Congregationalist that the kind of religion here presented is coming to be immensely popular:—

“The Congregationalist repeats the story which General W. N. Armstrong tells of a pious colored brother, loud in exhortation but exceedingly shaky in morals, who was remonstrated with by his employer for various breaches of the law that brought scandal on the establishment. ‘Yes, boss,’ said the culprit, ‘I owns squar up; I’s done broke ebery one ob de c’mandments; but, bless de Lord, I’s nebber lost my ’ligion!’ The Congregationalist adds as a ‘snapper’: ‘Unless the signs of the times are deceptive, too many white folks are getting hold of that colored religion.’”