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on his breast, I lean my head and breathe our lives out sweetly there‘. .

	~	“Sister, I just think dis younger generation i~ gone to~. tally. Dey ain‘t taucht right in de home, and de teac1~rs can‘t do a thing with ‘em. If it wasn‘t for de prayers ~‚~oin‘ up to de throne of grace from all us old saints what‘s got sense enough to trust iii nothin‘ else but ~Tesus, de whole business would be gone plum to rack. Dey ain‘t even got sense enOugh to know dat. De young folks mind is on worldly goods and worldly pleasures and dere ain‘t no good in none of it, just misery and woe, to all it touches. And still dey don‘t seem to see,and don‘t want to see and nobody got any sense, can‘t make ‘em see. God help~ dis generation is all dat I can say.

	“I figure I lived dis long ‘cause in de first place, I obey God, I never did &rinlc liquor or smoke in my whole life. I never wore glasses but precious little and dat was when I did what little reaaing and writing I knowed how to do; cause after my children went to schoollong enough to read and write for me I just stopped doing dat little bit. Now dey‘s all dead so I just makes marks, and lets .. ~ i~t . go at dat . I am a member o f The Kennerly Avenue Church of God
	in GlLrist.“	..	~	.