The God-Called Preacher by Dr. Peter S. Ruckman

Author:Dr. Peter S. Ruckman [Ruckman, Dr. Peter S.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: BB Bookstore
Published: 2011-06-09T04:00:00+00:00

THE DISADVANTAGES OF BEING A

RESCUE MISSION SUPERINTENDENT

1. Working with ungrateful sinners.

2. Very little permanent results, at least where the “fruits” of real conversion are in evidence.

3. No glamour. Rescue mission work is not even MENTIONED by the five largest fundamental colleges and universities in America. It is mentioned nowhere in their giving, their curriculums, their conferences, their assemblies, or their “Congresses.”

4. The constant turnover in personnel.

5. Being unable to have your own family live with you in the mission.

Bums (“street people” in the NEA) and tramps (“transients” in the news media double speak) are some of the most ungrateful people in the world. You not only owe them free room and board (without working for it); but they will gripe about the food, the beds, the chairs, the table, the weather, the cooks, the preachers, and everything else. Few ever return to a mission to thank the superintendent even after they got saved in his mission.

I would say, after dealing with the “knights of the open road” (American cliché, circa 1930s), in six different missions, through a period of fifty years (one in Memphis, one in Jacksonville, one in Charleston, one in St. Louis, one in Pensacola, and one in Blytheville, Arkansas), that you could not expect more than one drunk out of five to actually get the victory over the stuff on which he was hooked and live the rest of his life as a sober man. The percentage is less than that since drugs replaced liquor. That would be one out of five who actually experienced the New Birth as good as Billy Sunday, Mel Trotter, General William Booth, Jerry McAuley, or Pat Wilhrow ever experienced it.

My aunt, uncle, and mother were all chronic alcoholics.

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