The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-03


where. and could see scores of peo-
pie wiping their eyes.
That night when we got home We
mad little lunch and / never men Z
TONED 1t, never said boo to her. And =
the next night l saw her get up and
go 10 the rear of the church, speak
10 a kind of rough-necked young fell
low that stood leaning up against the
radiator, and | knew it wasn't one of
her bunch; | never said boo to her.
put noticed it. and the next night
saw her get up and rubber and go
around and find that same young fell
low, and bring him to the front. That
was the first soul she had ever won.
saw her start out, and she'd go
downtown, go into billiard halls and
law offices, in the banks. the stores.
! ana nave seen eight young men
! come home with her at noon from
school, talking religion. | have seen
seven or eight standing out in front
VI the house in the snow waiting for
ner 10 come out, to talk religion. and
she won every member of that high
school to Christ but three.
II she had had her way, she would
not have done thing,
/ Tells Another
personal Experience
| One more: | was in a town ma
tlme IN Iowa, being entertained in the
nome OF man, and he was the bank
/ CT Iof that part of the country. He
mad brilliant wife. She's gone home
! 10 glory. This woman Pm talking
! about was a Congregationalist and she
was brilliant woman. She started
a little literary society that developed
IN the country. l said to her one day:
Well Mrs. L., the Lords going to do
great things throug you'
On, she said, Pm not going to
do personal work.
! Why not?" l asked.
! She said, You know. we Concre-
/ gationalists don't believe in that"
said. THE Lord does"
Wen, she said, That's for the
Methodists and Salvation Army?"
i | said, Show me where God AL
mighty lets you Congregationalists all
sit around like knot on a log and.
expect somebody else to do your
work"
Wei" she said. az have never done
said, We'll, that may be true.
Then you've never done Gods work
until you do it,
Shed been in the congregational
lst church for 81 years: she'd walked
IN and repeated the Lords PRAYER:
shed sing Jesus Lover of My Soul"
and 1t was ie-Jesus was no lover
OF her soul. He was a formal ac-
qualntance she bowed to when she
went into her pew. That's all.
Persists Nagging
, to Get Results
! | finally kept nagging at her till
4 she promised me she'd 90 out and
r speak to people about Christ, and l
watched her as | preached and could
see her turn pale and fan herself.
She was thinking about the promise
/ shed made. l knew it was going to
, pc hard, and | saw her get I'D when
: asked, 60 out and speak to your
friends and neighbors and strangers, -
ana l saw her go back and speak to
Fellow who sat on the end of the
;, seat. He shook his head and it scared
L ther. She walked back and sat down
y she thought she was going to die of
!, palpitation of the heart, and pretty
|, soon she got up the courage to try
: agaln-she was game, bless her heart.
: she went back and put her hand on
! MS arm and spoke to him, and he
recognized her. He felt honored to
think that rich, brilliant society
woman would take an interest in his
: soul, kind Of roughneck. | saw
!, him reach up and wipe his eyes with
u his sleeve Che didn't have any hand.
kerchleD and wipe his nose with his
= hand He commenced to cry and he
u followed her down the aisle That
3 was the first soul she had ever won
IL for IpSnS Oh ist-fha
On the way home we saw a man
J leaning UP against a lamp-post. rock
} ing back and forth. This woman was
{ cousin of Marshall Field in Chi.
) cago. She had carte blanche when.
t ever she went to the store. She
dressed fine-in silks and diamonds
l. and we saw this fellow leaning under
D. the lamp-post. She said There's a
a fellow drunk She took a look AT
e him and said, That's the husband OF
the woman that's done my WASHING
for eight years"
It | said, Have you ever talked to
T him about Christi"
g Never did"
h Wei, here's a good chance"
II "On the street,
Sure"
She said, Hes come to nv home
y every Monday morning with a little
1T wagon and took away my soiled liner
d. and brought it back on Friday. anC
&c I've paid him and he has taken the
10 money and drank it up
o. Prays for
is Unfortunate Man
e He had staggered up to her doc
K for eight years. She had had he,
Il name on the Congregationalist churcl
y records all this time and had neye
IL said word to this man
lie Lets talk to him
She put one arm o. his shouIde
and told him who she was and h,
ID burst into tears, and she got dow
"a on her knees with her silk skirts AM
tn prayed for that fellow He gave hi
81 heart to Christ. | have been back t,
as that town within the last year H
nj owns his home. paid thirty-five hun
as dred dollars for it; he's got it pal,
as for; he told me he had sixteen hun
er dred dollars lin the bank She wol
10 him to Jesus Oh, I've seen her gath
er up her skirts, step over the bacI
to of seats like that to get in the MID
die to talk to somebody about Jesu
at Christ
Du She went home to heaven not lon
10. ago. She spent her winters out i
10 California, in Pasadena. | was GU
there and the phone rang-I was a