The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-08-12
A BOARDING-HOUsE kE1

A BOARDING-HOCsE KEEPER.
Another correspondent, writing from,
Washington pointed out how the Irish
famine might have been prevented, as
! follows:
! You are setting the world valuable example if
you succeed in your forty days fast. If such a
fact could have been demonstrated one year ear
lier there would have been no need of the Irish
! famine and hundreds Of thousands of dollars
! would have been saved to the noble people of this
! country. am with you.
| Another, who wrote from Brooklyn,
accused the faster Of living on dust:
| think have discovered the reason of your in
crease in wei ght The Clarendon hall. not having
been swept since the beginning of your task, con
tains plenty of dust; which is in part absorbed by
your clothes and lungs.
Sarah K Wilson, of Toms River, n.
| j., believes in the fasting man, as the
following shows:
| ] am not uneasy about you; for I verify believe
you can endure all You have undertaken, and
| more too. There is nothing impossible with God
This is miracle. Fast on! Teach people to
feed their souls, and not their sto1nachs.
u. w. K of Brooklyn, suggested
prayer as all accompaniment to air
and water:
DEAR Docron: You have my best wishes and
kindly sympathies. You say. Eve need less re-
ligion and more humanity Yes! Much Of the re-
ligion Of this day is sham: Il fraud, a lie! We
need more humane Christians, who will feed the
hungry poor While you are fasting, allow me
| to suggest prayer good accompaniment, and
while you draw deni OF water draw also wa
ter from the wells of salvation. Feed on the
bread of heaven and hunger no more.
This was from Philadelphia:
DR.. TANNER: In the name of Jesus How
| can you: a man made in the image of God AL
mighty, and in intelligence perhaps better than
the common man as the Dr.. pretiXed bespeaks ed
! ucation. position & enrolling term. Why do
you stooP only to seek the low newspaper notori
Why exchange for it your life the good gift of
God. Is your health 4 life only worth the paltry
newspaper gossip why crafty the morbid thirst
for blood hands that are watching YOU, why barter
gamblers does this compensate your terrible suf-
erings do you care 30 much for the opinion of
such low class Of men, what good will be obtained
by influence Of the Devil which is over you. Come
out and be man: don't be a fool, what good will
money be to you with life and health gone BY SO
are only promoting terrible anguish and suffering
only to please and satiate the brute beasts (,sho
call themselves mem around you. Cry to the
Lord "Resist the Devil and he will fee from you.
of Jesus that you will give up this terrible heart
| rending ordeal, Come out and be man. you will
call down the respect of the world Some viii
help you, God will surely raise up friends to you,
It you will only turn to him, poor deluded sinner
God will surely forgive, God will strengthen you,
! In the name Of God, come out Turn to him. in
this trying moment Show man. you can stand, I
know you will succeed prayer earnest prayer shah
follow this note, earnest prayer for you night and
day. You will gain nothing by killing yourself to
please the newspapers and gambling men, your
name will soon be forgotten and blotted out, the
place that knew your foot will soon know you no
more, nothing will be gained, DO GRE up, and God
bless you, and enable you to stand. am a
| Christian trusting only in God, bound to him by
| Prayer and love Prayer after prayer has been an
swered to me, will pray earnestly for you, at the
mid night hour and by day.