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DifferenceBetween White and Black Religion

Colored folks frequently "git religion" at their revival services, foam at the mouth, roll on the floor, shout wildly, and give many other demonstrations that religion has come to them. Their idea is that if you really get religion you have to utter it so that the other folks will understand.

We once knew some white folks to go to a colored funeral, and the preacher had exhorted in his oration over the coffin until all the colored folks present were giving wild demonstrations of their grief, some of the near relatives rolling on the floor and screaming at the tops of their voices. In the midst of this bedlam of wild sounds the preacher caught the eye of one of the white gentlemen looking on from the doorway, and with every demonstration of

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pride, he called out, "White folks, we sure is havin' us SOME funeral."

They tell the story of the colored cook who came home from a revival meeting late at night, shouting her religion at the top of her voice, and her employer had to go down anii quiet her. When she got her quiet, the white lady said, "Mandyr Xou shoud be ashamed to act that way in the name of religion. True religion is peaceful and dignified. Tell that preacher of yours to read the story of the building of Solomon's Temple in the Bible, and he will find thaf it rose without a sound of hammer or tool. Tell him to consider that and deliver a sermon on a quiet religion."

"Thass all right fo you white folks," replied Mandy, recovering her breath, "But us niggahs ain't building no Temple yit-we jest blastin'fo de foundation."

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