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Bishop Richard Allen and His Spirit

one and to keep it like a parlor. Girls, your brain cells are larger than mine, and if I can lay out a geometrical net, what might you do if you use your varied talents? Of course, the girl who attends to her own business, has but little time for gossip and tattling. Don’t wait until you are grown to learn to work; learn more and more with your hands and head and your heart as you come to the duty of wife and motherhood—Jesus liked to visit the home of Mary and Martha, because they kept a nice clean house, “cleanliness is next to godliness.” Amen.

Lastly, we will hear a sermon from Rev. Dr. Lion: Well boys and girls, you all know me. My very name stands for strength and fear. When I roar the whole forest trembles. Still, if you go to the Circus, or Park menagerie you will see me tamed, and in a cage. Nothing has ever been too hard for man to do in the natural world but to save himself from sin, and Jesus did it for him; therefore He is the greatest being on earth. I am the King of beasts. You strong boys and girls can make this world blossom like a flower garden if you will use your moral and intellectual strength to build up race and country—be