“They whispered and snickered at my straw hat and Jobe’s linen coat.”
I jist thought if that was what Jesus intended to do and why he told him that, Jesus was a poor judge of timber to make a preacher out of.C
“He said the rich all belong to church.”
Then the preacher went on to show that the young feller Jesus failed to make a preacher out of was the only one he meant should give anything to the poor; that he dident mean anybody in that Methodist meetin-house; that they and everybody else could git all they could and keep all they can git; that the more they git and the less they give to the poor the surer they would be of gittin to heaven.
He said the rich all belong to church and were good; that that was the reason they were rich—because God loved them and prospered them; that God had made them his bankers, and they were his bankers.
Well, when he said all that I jist felt gone like.
I looked at Jobe, and he was as pale as a ghost. He was skeert.
We both felt that we were doomed to eternal torment, because the Lord knows he hasent prospered us.