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on his breast, I lean ray head and breathe our lives out sweetly
there' .
"Sister, I just think dis younger generation is gone to-
tally. Dey ain't taught right in de home, and de teachers can't
do a thing with 'em. If it wasn't for de prayers goin' up to de
throne of grace from all us old saints what's got s-ense enough to
trust in nothin 1 else but Jesus, 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 genera-
tion is all dat I can say#
"I figure I lived dis long 'cause in de first place, I obey
God, I never did drink liquor or smoke in rny whole life. I never
wore glasses but precious little and dat was when I did what little
reading and writing I knowed how to do; cause after ray 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
it go at dat. I am a member of The Kennerly Avenue Church of God
in Christ."