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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 24, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 24.

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SPASMODIC RELIGION

The Richmond Religious Herald relates the following: A minister was interviewing a colored preacher. "How many colored people on the plantation where you preach?" "Well, sah, 'bout a hundred and seventy-five." "And how many of them belong to your church?" "Dat 'pends, sah, on de time ob de year. In de 'vival times dey all are members, but in de backslidin' times ders nobody members but Uncle Billy and old Aunt Katy." Much like some white churches.