My Baptist Uncle by Helen Mayo, March 1926

My Baptist Uncle

My uncle is a Baptist.

I am glad, aren’t you?

And if I was a Christian

I’d be a Baptist, too.

If all the men that die

And leave their wives so sad,

Were members of the Baptist church,

Then it wouldn’t be so bad.

We know the Baptist very well,

I think they all are nice.

They remember the old saying,

“Kindness pays the price.”

Uncle’s pround of his membership.

The treasure he can hold;

He’s prouder of this membership

Than silver or of gold.

I am not a poet—

This I know you can see;

And while reading in The Messenger

Please do not forget me.

HELEN MAYO, Sunday School Member, Rose Bay

From page 7 of the Hyde County Messenger, Fairfield, N.C., March, 1926

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