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The Word on the Brazos : Negro preacher tales from the Brazos bottoms of Texas
- Title
- The Word on the Brazos : Negro preacher tales from the Brazos bottoms of Texas / John Mason Brewer, foreword by J. Frank Dobie; illustrated by Ralph White, Jr.
- Author
- Brewer, John Mason, 1896-1975.
- Publication
- Austin, University of Texas Press, 1953.
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- Description
- 109 pages illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Folklore.
- Printed books – 20th century – United States – Texas – Austin – Specimens.
- Contents
- Bad religion: The preacher and his farmer brother / A job for God / Cussing for the church / Elder Lott's Sunday night sermon / God throws a tree limb / Little Bill's conversation with God / Reverend Carter's twelfth anniversary sermon / Sister Rosie and the African missionary / The tale of the three preachers / Sister Patsy's error / The wrong man in the coffin / What Major Buford knew / White and black theology / How Elder Samuels was saved / Sister Liza and the new pastor / Halley's comet and judgement day / Brother Gregg identifies himself / Baptizings, conversions, and church meetings: / The old preacher's will and the young wife / Uncle Ebun and the sign of the shooting star / Sister Carrie and the little white man / The baptizing of the cat family / The hare-lipped man and the speaking meeting / The moderator and the alligator / The preacher who walked on water / The trustee board and the cuspidor / Why Abe Brown went to the revival / The old moderator's farewell message / The complaining church sister / Sister Sadie Washington's littlest boy / Uncle Charlie gets directions / Good religion: A sermon, a cat, and a churn / The preacher who asked too many questions / The haunted church and the sermon on tithing / The Lord answers Sister Milly's prayer / The oxen and the denominations / The preacher who talked in his sleep / The Sunday school scholar and the pastor / The mulatto boys and the religious test / t Scott Mission Methodist Church gets a full-time pastor / Heaven and hell: Why the guardian angel let the Brazos Bottom Negroes sleep / The Baptist Negroes in heaven / The pole that led to heaven / Who can go to heaven / Little Jim Lacey's desires / Why so many Negroes are in heaven / Good Friday in hell / John's trip to hell / Uncle Si, his boss-man, and hell / Preachers and little boys: Little David's question / Gabriel and the Elder's coat / Heaven and the post office / Little Ned and the sweet potato pie / Reverend Black's gifts from heaven / The sinner man's son and the preacher / Little Tom and the one-eyed preacher / Deacon Jones's boys and the greedy preacher.
- LCCN
- 53010834
- OCLC
- ocm00638361
- 638361
- SCSB-277593
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library