The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-23
I sTRoLLED OUT THERE.

real good man. His name was Parsley
Fhnton Parsley. He has done business
in most all the towns of the northwest.
Entering place quietly and even meek
ly, with letter to the local pastor, he
began reaching out his little social ten
drills by signing over the lost and I'M
done condition of mankind. After re-
GREETING the condition in which he had
found Gods vineyard, he would rent
store and sell goods at sacrifice, but
when the sacrifice was being offered up
a close observer would discover that Mr..
Parsley was not in it.
| In this way he would build up quits
trade, only sparing little time each
day in which to retire to his closet and
sob over the altogether goddess condition
In which he had found man. He would
then make an assignment.
Pardon me for again referring to the
matter, but do so utterly without NAL
ice and in connection with the unparal-
leled growth of my property here. So if
the gentle and rather attractive reader
will excuse a bad pen and some plain
stationery, as my own crested writing
paper is in my trunk, which is now IN
| the possession of a well known hotel
man whose name is suppressed on &C
count of his family, l will refer again
briefly to the property and the circurn-
stances surrounding its purchase. had
intended to put good fence around it
ere this, but with these peculiar circum-
stances surrounding it l feel that it is
/ safe from intrusion.
! The property was sold to my wife by
| Mr.. Parsley at sacrifice, but when the
( burnt Offering had assembled, and the
atmosphere had cleared, and the ashes
on the altar had been blown aside, the
suspender buttons of Mr.. Parsley were
not there. He had taken bis bright red
markdown figures and letter to his
future pastor and gone to another town.
/ He is now selling groceries. From town
lots to groceries is, TO versatile man,
very small stride. He is in business in
ST. Paul, and that has given Minneapolis
quite a little squirt of prosperity.
We exchanged cottage for city lots
unimproved, as l said in former letter,
and got Mr.. Parsley to do it for u.s.
NY wife gave him her carriage for act
| ing in that capacity. She was sorry she
could not do more for him, because he
was a man who had found his fellow
man in such an undone condition every
where and had been trying ever since
to do him up.
The property lies about half way be-
| tween the West hotel and the open polar
sea, and is in a good neighborhood look
| ing south: at least. it was the other day
when left it. 1t lies all over the north
west, resembling in that respect the man
we bought it of.
| Mr. Pansley took the carriage, also the
wrench with which / was wont to take
off the nuts thereof and grease it on Sab
/ bath mornings. We still go TO church,
but we walk. Occasionally Mr.. Parsley
whirls by us and his dust and debris fall
upon my freshly ironed and neat linen
coat as he passes by us with sigh.
! He said once that he did not care for
money if he only could let in the glad
sunlight of the gospel upon the heathen-
why" j exclaimed, why do you
wish 70 let in the glad sunlight Of the
gospel upon the heathen?'
"Alasr7 he said, brushing away tear
with the corner of a gray shawl which
/ be wore, and wiping his bright. piercing
nose on the top rail of my fence, $50
that they would not go TO he'll, Mr.. Nye.'
And do you think that the heather
who knows nothing of God viii go 70
hell. or has been going 10 hell for say ten
thousand years without having seen a
daily paper or a Testament
al do. Millions of ignorant people in
vet undiscovered lands are going TO he'll
daily without the knowledge Of God
With that he turned away and concealed
his emotion in his shawl, while his whole
frame shook. But even il he should
escape by reason Of his ignorance we
cannot escape the responsibility Of she'd
ding tie light Of the gospel upon his
opaGue soul. said he.
So I gave him s. to assist the pooI
heather 70 q place where be may share
the welcome Of cordial aud eternal
darnnalon along with the more educated
and refined classes Whether the heather
viii ever appreciate II or not l cannot
tell At this moment Lately | have hsc
= little raw Of fear Eat he might not,
and along with that fear. ike q beam
Of sunshine, comes IL blessed hope that
possibly something 2 az have hsppened
to the g, and th1t ulayhsP II did not
get there.
went I'D TO SO the property with
whlcn KY wIEs mad Ceen enooWea o
the generous foresight Of 2E. Paisslsy.
the heStRsn's friend. ! lad sea Lhs