Stories From Ex-~S1aves (Geo . Bri~s.)
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	PtA child fo God allus will agree wid de Word of God. ~Ve iriens dat claim to be leaders in de Kingdom, got to step up arid sho folks what dey must . Man learns r1~ht smart from Exodus tbout how to lead. A~ male child was born to rule de world. Moses still de strongest Impression dat we has a~ rùlers. God sits His-.aelf into de heads of men dat he wants to rule and He don‘t tell nobody eiise nothing ‘bout it neither.

	“Mr. Roosevelt de president and he sholooks atter de P0‘ Loiks. He ain‘t no ig‘nant man neither, kaise he got de li~ght. F01k8 ain‘t a.~w1ne to drown him out neither wid dere wiCked words ‘gainst him, kaise he strive in de Lawd‘s name to do ~is will. Mr. Roosevelt got learning like I is from de throne of God. He may have education also, but if he is, he sho knows how to keep dem both jined together. yolks readsto nie how he got crippled and how he washed in dem springs in Georgia, and dat keep him a.~wine right on anyhow. it ain‘t dem 8prin~3 by deseif, but it‘s God a dippiri~ his hand down dar fer de Pres~ ident to ~it well. Oh yes, suh, I knows dat he twan‘t de pres.. ident when he was a..‘~ashin~, but dein de plans dat de Lawd had done already planned and you and me never know‘d nothing ~bout all dat. You and me does not know what is planned up in stot fer us i.fl de future neither.

	“I ±8 a Baptist, and at Pad~ett‘s Creek we does not

believe in no back.-.slidin~. ‘Once in de Spirit, allus in de Spirit‘. A child of ~oür‘n is allus a child of your‘n. Dat de way de Baptist teach ~ once a child of God, allus God‘s child.