"De Baptiss, my bruddren, is in such a gone case, dey is in such a mighty tight fix, dat de ole Bible--de Bible dat all de faders and mudders have gone to heaven wid--de Bible dat dey used to love such a heap--de ole Bible dat fill us wid de hebbenly fire all de way along de road to Canaan--dat ole Bible, my bruddren, is no account any more to de Baptiss, and dey say dat the Baptiss is a gwine to get up a new deversion. In de ole Bible it reads, if my memory sarve me, 'In dose days came John de Baptiss.' Dey say in de new deversion its gwine to read, 'In dose days came John de Immerser'--_'tain't dar_, my bruddren. In de ole Bible it reads, if my memory sarve me, 'He shall baptize you wid de Holy Ghost and wid de fire.' Dey say dat in de new deversion it's gwine to read, 'He shall _immerse_ you wid de Holy Ghost and wid de fire'--_tain't dar_, my bruddren! Immersin' wid fire, my bruddren!--immersin' wid fire! Who ever read in de Bible 'bout immersin' wid fire, _only_ dem chil'en of de three Hebrewsers? Dey was immersed wid fire--dem three Hebrewsers dat was put into de furnace, heated seven times hot by de dedict of Nebuckefalus--what you call 'em now" (scratching his head)--"Shamrack, Shimshack, and Bedgone. Dey ar all dat we read in de Bible 'bout bein' immersed wid fire." This was the finishing blow. Nathan sat down. The excitement and joy of his brethren were unbounded. They shouted, danced, shook hands, hugged, and yielded themselves up to that perfect luxury of excited, joyous feeling of which they alone seem capable. My esteemed friend the late Rev. W.W. Hill, D.D., to whom my readers are indebted for the story of the candidate and his Greek quotations, gave me the following facts, illustrating the argumentative power of an old-time slave preacher: At the commencement of the Doctor's ministry he was for several years the pastor of a church that had been founded in the early history of the State, and ministered to for a lifetime by a distinguished Scotch minister. He had indoctrinated the entire community, and built up a very strong Presbyterian church. Dr. Hill, who was a native of the State, and greatly interested in the colored people, was very often invited to preach to a colored Baptist church in the afternoon, which he always did with the greatest pleasure. It is perhaps not known to all my readers that the slaves always assumed and stoutly maintained among themselves the relative social rank and position of their masters. If the master was a President, Governor, Member of Congress, Judge, or a man of large wealth, all his slaves participated in his honors, and often bore them more conspicuously and proudly than he did.