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Missionary Preaching Against Lying and Stealing Meets Resistance

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 10, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 49, No. 19.

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Missionary Preaching Against Lying and Stealing Meets Resistance

A WORTHY missionary clergyman from the North found his colored brethren and sisters quite forgetful of the moral law, and began to give them a series of practical discourses against lying and stealing. The congregation stood it for a Sunday or two, and then they revolted, and one of the deacons being their spokesman addressed their preacher thus: “We like you berry much, and want to make it comf’ble for you, but de fac’ is, you see, we dont like dis preachin’ about lyin’ an’ stealin,—we mus’ hab our Sundays for ’ligion.”