COLORED APOSTLES
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The darkey preacher and one of his deacons fell to discussing the color-line amongst the apostles. The deacon maintained that “all de ’postles was cullud pussons, ’cause don’t you see, Bruddah, dat de Holy Lan’ is ’bout de same latitude as Africa, an’ dey all jist muss a bin cullud.” But the parson was of a contrary opinion, declaring that while “O’ co’se some on ’em mout a bin cullud, dey wa’n’t all dat a way. Dar, fer ’sample, was Saint Paul—he mout a bin cullud, but den dar war Saint Petah, he wa’n’t. I know he wa’n’t.” “An’ how you know dat, Bruddah?” queried the deacon. “Wa’ll, deacon,” said the preacher, “Saint Petah nevah was a cullud pusson, ’case if he had a bin cullud dat dar rooster wouldn’t a crowed more’n onct.”