The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-14
THAT POOR LITTLE WOMAN.
Wicked Wichita to be Eyangelixed Some
More il She Don't Starxe in Meantime.


If it is absolutely necessary that
Wichita be any farther evangelical
this winter. we move that the work
be entrusted to our own ministers.
There are enough of them and of un-
questioned ability besides their saia-
ries are already arranged for. \ gen
tie little woman, with kind and SYM
pathetic look. was out facing the storm
yesterday soliciting funds and sub
scTiptions of money with which 10 hire
another evangelist TO come TO Wichita.
a good many people in Wichita need
bread probably more, pressinSly than
spiritual food. However that may be.
we have our own good and faithful
ministers 10 look after those cases in
which farther delay might prove dis
astrous. of such as are brands
that must be snatched, etc. We pitied
that little woman, thus driven about
from door to door. on such a day, all
from q sense of duty. or from some pres
sure mayhaps having its source in the
proposed evangelist himself
And that reminds us that the town
is posted with bills-printeG somewhere
else-put up by a regular advance
agent a matter of buSiness-the end
of which is money-announcing the
speedy presence in this city OF still an
other evangelist. His speciality We be-
lieve is temperance. Doubtless before
he gets through, or at least we viii
venture to say. IGaybe-he VIII be call
ing on our good church people TO go
down in their pockets 10 NIL his own
Now it is fact, whether our own MIN
listers appreciate II or NOT, sun tact
that it is all that their congregations
can do TO pay their salaries and TO
meet the other demands of their re-
spective church organizations, without
scratching and scraping and stinting
to raise generous sums for imported
peripetetic evangelists. We do not de
ny that the one who has sent his bus
mess agent ahead to bill the town, and
make terms, has the good OF humanity
at heart, but We are heartlesS enough
to surmise that said humanity may con-
sist principally OF his, and himself, and
possibly his advance agent. The pro-
fessional latter day evangelist seldom
oVerlooks the scrip and staff" what
ever the New Testament may advise
on that score. Wichita ought TO be
saved Nobody is denying that. 1t is
a wicked town, but awful hard up. And
many of her people are "hungerinS ana
thirsting" but more after bread and
milk than after evangelists. When
Heaven has smiled once more in abund-
ant crops, and the devil has got q
less firm clutch on the souls of our
bond selling law makers, and the jim
gle Of money is again heard in the land
we will not interpose any objections
to dividing up with those sincere souls
who come SO far TO save us from cur
sins, at so much per week, hall rent.
fire and lights free; but until something
of the kind happens we appeal to those
who have any spare treasure 10 lay up
in Heaven that they buy bread with II
for the pinched faced mothers who dali
" beseech the county commissioners
for aid. and for their hungry little ones.
The approving smile of the Christ viii
be for such. for to feed, to clothe, and
to visit such, is to feed, clothe and visit
Him. The chances are that in the
final roundup of eternity nickle thus
expended will make bigger showing
on the credit side of your account either
as a Christian or as sinner than the
check which went to swell the earthly
bank account of some sleek well fed
evangelist.