The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-07
WOMAN FULFILS
 "IF" CONDITION
 OF HER MARRIAGE
Mrs. May L. Haight Enters Ministry After Years of
 Evangelistic Work
Written for International News
 Service
By IMAGERY REX.

By IMAGERY REX.
 New York, Oct. 4.--"Yes,'' softly murnured a dozen years ago to a pleading suitor was accompanied with an ''if'.
 .If' and it's implication was fully justified when Mrs. May Lindsey Haight, at the West Side Mission, be- fore a council of clergymen, was ex- amined for ordination into the min istry. Mrs. Knights actively relig- ious career as evangelist, carried on with the consent of her husband and family, will have its continuation when she passes over the prejudice of centuries into the pulpit.
 Ever since, as a girl of fifteen, she felt the call to religious duty Mrs. Haight has looked forward to the op- portunity that will be hers when or dained.
 reer early in life and after working a few years one morning felt I must give up to serve God, I could stay at my desk no longer. When I be- church I felt it, and it was growing stronger. I couldn't find a theolog- ical school that would let me enter, for, owing to i'll health. had lacked sufficient previous education. I work ed in missions and rescue socIetIes nevertheless.
 Her Chance Came. Suddenly from Long Lake, in the Adirondack came my chance like a thunderbo1t- A minister who had heard of my ambitions sent for me to help. him with a two weeks meeting He expected me to preach. I said I couldn't. But I had to and felt al first that God had brought me there He had sent me there to trap me in | to His service, since no effort of mine to serve Him the way I wanted to seemed successful.
 I1rIaf fr, Baptist church in Troy that had in vited me to come and preach there He was bitterly opposed to the idea | of my coming. I had a singer travell- | ing with me, and finally the pastor had to call off our visit. In the meantime MT. Haight had been mol l lifted omewhat by being asked if he wouldn'e agree if the pastor thought | it was the Lords will that I come, SC he agreed. This was three months later.
 Courtship Began.
 "I stayed five weeks and oul courtship began. I did not know thai ! the intense admiration felt for hin swas love at the time.
 When he asked me to marry hin I said yes along with if, meaning that I must follow my call in spite of everything. He agreed. We botl knew the responsibilities we were facing. We planned our home ant our family. We both loved childrer | an we wanted ours. I wanted to bt l both wife and mother.
 l When little Fred, now ten, was l baby of 20 months I took him witf me on my evangelistic tours. I wa | with him every, minute except thu | time I talked. Then I had reliabl, I short time. I had an old steame trunk, that, when opened up. had cur i tains and all the baby fixings like
 pretty bassinet. He never lacked l comforts or attention.
 Doesn't Copy Sunday.
 'I don't want people to look on m
 as masculine woman. am not try
 ing to be a copy of Billy Sunday. 1 want to carry the word of God as tn voice of prophecy
 Makes Own Clothes.
 "I am busy when home because 1 make all my own clothes and talk | great pains with the gowns I wea l while talking. They are all cut iron
 the same patterns, my own design ] with p1eats across the front an' made from heavy white crepe d T is mine. I believe any lecturer o evangelist should present a good ap pearance; neat and plain.
 Hundreds of young women woul like to do what I do,'' smiled Mrs
 Haight, "but have not the chance. Ol leaving theological seminaries the are turned loose but with no place t
 ''Another trouble with wome | eVanSel1SIS IS tIidL. they get IuiIleC
 atA little unpleasant things that
 never notice. My own feelings ar
 unimportant. The main thing is t
 talk to people.
 | "I am not a sensationalist. I hol : to fundamentals, which I believe tn
 world needs now, if it ever did.
 '.I see no hope for the presen state of dissatisfaction preva1en
 everywhere. It is now as it was i the days of Noah, before the judge ment of the flood.
 '.Men are lovers of pleasure rathe than lovers of God. There is to
 much envy of the rich and nc
 enough seeking of happiness throug } serving God.
 t 'sThe indifference of church men l bers is the curse of the church tt = day. They are members in name or
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