Dey Don’t Die Dat Way

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 13, 1869

“Dey Don’t Die Dat Way.”

THE comment of a colored preacher on the text, “It is more blessed to give than to receive,” is inimitable for its point as well as eloquence. “I’ve known many a church to die ’cause it didn’t give enough; but I never knowed a church to die ’cause it gave too much. Dey don’t die dat way. Brederen, has any of you knowed a church to die ’cause it give too much? If you do, just let me know; and I’ll make a pilgrimage to dat church, and I’ll climb by de soft light of de moon to its moss-covered roof, and I’ll stand dar and lift my hands to heaven and say, ‘Blessed are de dead dat die in de Lord.’”