The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-10-13
PALACE CAR RELIGION
Peck,s sun.l

A party named Harris, who has L., making speciality of converting ra,l,ess mer, has scheme on foos 10 build ss
 pei ear, sort of palace affair. s,.s kitchen and all the conveniences. 10 ne. 10 run around the country conyer,,.. railroad n.en. Hts plan is to have :. ligious people subscribe about eigb.ss. thousand dollars 10 build the car. and :. will attend to the building and com. ment of the car, and run 1t on share; [. will be hauled to large city and sid. tracked, when the work of conver,inyr,. commence, and when all of the raiiro.s men that can be reached have b... made to see the error of ,heir ways x. palace car evangelist will couple his o.. flt 10 the hind end of a train and se., fresh fields and pastures new. IT.. scheme looks as though II would be splendid one for Hanis. He could ,ray.l over the country like prince, and se, i, his work like star actor. While yl< ,SHA would not throw straw in the asg of the evangelization of the louae, monthed brakeman, or the 6lrtiest sw-i,c-. man or car wheel tester on earth. II ,nss, say that the palace car religion docs n. look feasible. IL is not according 10 ,s4 teachings of Christ, who was conten.., 70 ride d jackass and do all the goo! !. could ou, under the stars. with no pa.a-. car upholstered in red plush, and wh5
 never rode on a pass. If the Reeere.;; Harris was going 10 make a specially ' converting superintendents, and gene.a
 managers, and directors, a palace |. with side-board, and an organ. ant
 bap,istery. might be appropriate. bu, :.
 that class has all 5een converted. a.. have palace cars of their osn, he has . 10 find his field among the conduc.on the brakemen. the freight handlers. Il. baggage smashers, and the engineers II. iiremen, and they had all rather get a-. der a shed in the depot, and sit on ,ruek.. and listen 10 the word. than to go in.o palace coach, with their greasy overa., on, and listen to dude in a circus q. Such men are sensible men, who are n: caught by gilt-edged tomfoolery. and ,te palace car evangelist would build up barrier between himself and the boys :hs moment tha, elegantly upholstered ius. gernaut should roll into the depot. Sore citizen would ask wha, car that was. an! a brakeman would spit across the pi.
 form and say that it was a private snas of the New Jerusalem train dispatchef. Railroad men who know enough to ,aSe religion, If they want ii. whether !. :: handed to them on tin platter or a s. yer service, would go around . block ' keep out of sight of a man who had : have q special Car 10 eat and sleep [ and closet Tn one corner 10 pray IF The quiet. unostentatious worker in Go:s vineyard. who would go 10 the swi,ch. house and talk religion and smoke do. les tobacco with the swi,chman. while # told him of the glories of the religion . which the railroad man was a strange
 would double discount the palace c4- evangelist on souls saved. The goa. man who would travel on a caboose oi freight train, and talk to the boys of
 land that is fairer than this, as they eat ,s cold lunch from tin pail, put up by lo- ing hands at home, and who could 2. out and shovel snow if the train go. stalled. or hold lantern while the boys uuloaded Car load of way freight, coul9 garner more souls and turn them over .z good order to the general manager of ;he broad suage heavenly line than the pa ace Car fellow, with his colored cook an1 he-chambermaid, could in lifetime When those whose business it seems D be 10 save soals learn that a plain sta,e. ment of facts between man and man, ar.
 an appeal to their good sense, has thousand times more effect than e..
 edged and upholstered monkey work. there will be fewer !unkhead enterprise, sprung upon the men who are always glai to contribute 10 any scheme that promises good to the Master. Let the eighteen thousand dollars that is proposed to Dc expended for mahogany and walna: palace on wheels that would never catch a human soul till hades froze over. be paid out 10 buy clothing and food for the children of railroad men who have been disabled. or who are sick and unable 10 work, and il will be the means of saving more souls than can be saved by the Pullman plan, and the men who contrib ute the money will be much happier 10 know that it has gone to bank up hungry little stomaehs with pork and beans, than they would to know that a man was .ray- cling around the country in palace car. with French cook, singing gospel hymns on side tracks. and being laughed a. bu ' al ro,-s-.