A Plucky Preacher
Eev Dr Parkburst, of New York, has made a pulpit attack upon the city government, charging that it gave protection to the wicked insteed of to the good ; to immorality instead of to virtue ; and to the criminal class instead of the law adiding. The report was made that he was a preacher, and did not know what he was talkingabout. So he laid aside his minis- * terial garb, dressed as a man of' tho town, went to the suloons, visited the bawdy houses and dancing saloons, made the rounds of the gambling hells, and did the town like a thoroughbred. The next time he went into his pulpit he had an experience to tell that was not hearsay—" he had been there." Afterwards he went before the Grand Jary with the evidence which he had collected, and secured indictments against many places and persons. His brethren in the ministry are anything but unanimous in approving his methods. He, however, justifies his action by the challenge that had been thrown down to him and by the results that have followed.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 13, 19 July 1892, Page 4
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183A Plucky Preacher Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 13, 19 July 1892, Page 4
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