Denied everywhere, poor Mrs. Schrumm wandered about the streets, in the bitterly cold wind, until she fell, completely tired out.
Then, indeed, charity had to sit up and take notice. The starving woman was put into an ambulance, and carried to a hospital. She will probably recover; her child will probably die.
Then, what moral right have you to let such unfortunates as these fall starving in your streets, while you are sending hundreds of millions of dollars abroad to feed, clothe, physic and make fires for the hungry, “thinly clad,” sick and shivering Chinese?
Doesn’t your own “mother wit” tell you that Foreign Missions could not consume such vast sums of money, if the missionaries limited themselves to preaching the gospel!
Put on your think cap, son.
In the New York World of December 5, 1908, is reported the case of George Schulze who shot himself to death, in spite of the pleadings of his wife and children, because he was out of work, had tried in vain to secure employment and was in despair.
If these were not typical cases, we would not dwell upon them. But they are typical cases, and you know it.