An honest German couple in Chicago kept a saloon on the west side. It did not seem to have ever entered their heads that there was anything wrong in keeping a saloon. One day the woman was a little ill and complaining about the saloon. A company of colored people across the road were holding meetings and claiming that God answered their prayers. The bartender said jestingly to the saloon keeper’s wife, “Why don’t you go over and let the niggers pray for you?” She replied, “I believe I will.” She went over and they did pray for her and she was not only healed but led to accept Christ and saved.
She came back to the saloon and told what the Lord had done for her. After that every day she would go into the saloon, sit down with the men at the tables and urge them to accept Christ. The bartender was now frightened and said to the saloonkeeper, “You had better stop your wife’s talking, or she will spoil your business.” He said, “I don’t care if she does.” Soon he was converted himself and they both gave up the business and became active out and out Christians, and for years have been members of the Chicago Avenue Church.