The Red Cloud chief., 1879-12-25
a. 4. PORE,
Go. Supt.

The following i, an Oshkosh Minis
ter $ idea cf raising i mortgage on a
church, lac writes ihu,ly to a brother
Minister.
There l. rGil Ing thai tl.row a GOODNESS
oyer IA church ike a mortgage, anl if |
| bad to 60 though life again, | would
rather worship in a bolrl shanty, such
a. Bill Wai bakcs tclrs in at Wo!f Eiy
er Boom, fit va rail for, than to send
M praises from a gilt edged church, u
. Tie aforesaid praises bad {, work their
WY through a thirteen THOUSAND dollar
mortgage. | think you would, too.
But YOU are tito 1t, mp to your arm pits,
and the question i. how are you going to
wade a~hcr,? You can Of c,ur>e, let
rp on ecrlenr su>,cnarr to the heather
IA foreign laEl-.-When a sci of heath
en- CT accustomed to receiving regular
remiit,uces of missionaries, tracts and
other cut feed, their appetite becomes
..ut, a. it Were. and if their supplies
are eat al they ycarn, ard refuse TO be
cnminrted IL i, of no Use TO write
them a letter from home, and tell them
thar lou have decided to cater to your
home made heithen for . little while.
Ii is usrle. to send them the raricular>
If YOU: mortgage. and tell them that You
have got to rni-c it or have your beau:i
ful church turned into "A pork packing
establishment. They wouldn't know
shat a mortgage WIS if they shouid see
it la the road NJ you must keep up
rour bcatheni>h work and trust t.
luck
There are several methods of rating
ribs money. You suggest chlerotorm
do not believe you can make chloroforln
work on The average Oshko-h man.
You sec chlcrofnrm has to he inhaled.
Now if You could Get chlorot rm 20 Ii
could / c drank, with their Wn'er, for ia
stance pleas cmpha,ize the word wite@,
brathrr iIoImes-you might get them IT.
4 conGi ion to come down. | think Oh
mature reflection, that the revolver plan
is the let. Arm all your deaconS with
r. rnlrcrs. Get the prominent citizens ot
Oshkosh in.o the church, close the doors,
and then tell them that ypu Will give
them thirty minutes II raise that mort
gage and If it is not done the shooting
will begin. In that case you will see
Tom Wall produce a pocket book he
drew when he was in the legislature, Say
his Now I iav me-" and go to sleep in
pew No. 90. Glib Lane would say h, was
willing to he searched, and a coed
scarc!,er could find a fifty dollar bill 10
hi> pisto, POCKET, Ga5e Bouck would,
under the steady C.ze of a x-shnOter,
put up the money he las saved so many
years for bis bridal tour, and in fact al!
the boys would ANTE up You see
you have got 10 get a good share Of Thu.
money from the worlds people. Your
truly good members have been milkel
unit! they arc 6rying up. 1t Is always
tie ease. Nav your beautiful church Is
a credi, to Oshkosh, and NJ mn who
has at heart the welfare of that finest
city on the continent, of its sizs. will be
proud 10 hear strangers say: That beau
,iful binding on the corner used 10 be =
Methods: church, but they got in debt
and had TO give 1t up. and now i: is .
brewery. and the MethodiSts meet on the
bridge and worship once in 4 while.
Eder | would like TO preach yo SER
lson from chapter seven, verse twenty
two CT tie new Testament which l am
going 10 write some time, AMI which
pcr.e v II read, when written, as follows:
''Iie that hath plenty of peanuts and
siveth his neichb,r nome, he can't have
none Of my peanuts when his peanuts are
In obedience to the human
teachings of this verse. / enclose you my
tor ten dollars. to be placed by Yen
where It Ti'l do the most good. 1t l.
much TO be sure. but it vii perhaps
1T move the mortgage irom n single OF
your church, aul II, when l come To
Oshko. h next week, | can put on NV
"si'eeks' and look at your church, and
mud even ons single that il unmortgl-.
g"d, | shall Be amply repaid: aud If III
the ilienas that | have in Oshkosh viii
do as well in proportion TO their means.
brother tiolues. yon will be an awful !
happy nan next week. Tell the boys. .
fg lie that ii will DO them good to hold !
;3stncs in a church. Ii may no. ply
buch of a dividend here on earth, but
Ehcn they get through hasing fun with
Ihe boys" here below, and they present
their thousand mile ticket Ia s. Peter at
The gate o! the great exposition above,
sud he punches a i,w miles out and tells
taeu. to pass in and make roon for the
bald hea led rooster fraui Milwauka, who
is coming up the grade on a hanl ear, !
having got iait hy thu regular train from
Green Bay. which ~ar,ed ahead Of time
him alone On The platform with a
lunch pudcr his arm, they will Gnl that (,
iho GoSk keeper has entered Up their
aaa shat there is enough coming tn
them to hay them 4 trumret. with which
they can make mu-ic in The golden strce's
aud nojpIy xii Lupz :L"y crue iion
n,iAo.h. lour IA c1u-c,
GEO. ". PEEK. :