Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1915 — How Eggs Built a Church [ARTICLE]

How Eggs Built a Church

Several years ago there was a produce dealer In southern Kansas who handled quantities of eggs. In the same town there was a struggling minister of the gospel trying to build UP his little flock of worshipers into a good-sized congregation. They had a poor little church and no organ or music of any kind except the choir. Times were hard and the young minister was almost discouraged. It was in the early part of March. The grass was green and the hens were laying many eggs, and the produce dealer bought them all. They were very cheap at that time. The dealer had Just made a shipment of three cars to New York City when a fierce blizzard started all over the country, but the eggs managed to get to New York, and the wise dealer ordered them held, knowing that there was bound to be a shortage on account of all the railroads being blockaded with snow. When the price in New York reached 60 cents per dozen he ordered them sold and had for a profit about $14,000. It was easy 1 oney and he presented the entire profit to the little church. Today there Is a large house of worship standing on a hill in the town that was built from the profits of three cars of eggs. “It is an ill wind that blows nobody any good.”