A New Evangelising Agent.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 43, 29 March 1884, Page 3

A New Evangelising Agent.

The following much-travelled paragraph is worth giving :— According to the " Sanitary Engineer " of New York, a reporter was sent to a Wesleyan chapel to attend a meeting which was held for the conversion of the Jows, and after he had finished this part of his work he had to report some addresses on improved sanitation. Unfortunately his "copy" got mixed, and this was the report which appeared in the journal that he represented : " The Chairman, after the meeting had been opened w ith prayer, explained that the conversion of the Jews was one of the greatest works that could engage the attention of our sanitary authorities. Filtration was the most perfect method that could be adopted for purification ; but a filter had its limits. There was a popular notion that the sewage contained a vast amount of wealth, but tlie sludge must be taken out of it for purposes of irrigation, as it otherwise choked the pores of the land, and they were a wandering race spread over the whole face of the habitable globe. They were denied the inimitable blessings of Christianity, which might be counted by thousands of tons per annum, allowed to run to waste, when by a judicious admixture of lime and clay, the benighted Hebrews who sat in darkness might ersily be converted into lime and cement for building purposes, and if thus deodorised, after being first dried and burned in a kiln, this ancient race would once more take its proud position among the nations of the world. Subscription? were earnestly solicited for the purpose, though he (the speaker) disclaimed any idea of making a profit out of the process, and, in conclusion, he urged increased efforts in the good work, showing that, thus deodorised by a very novel process of evangelisation in large tanks constructed for the purpose, the grateful Hebrew might flow over the land without injury to vegetation, while the expense of conversion, which was progressing as rapidly as the best friends of Christianity could wish, would be more than repaid by the sale of the phosphate of lime and valuable cement for building purposes."