Emphasis Preaching Journal

Beulah Lund is a Washington state farm wife who embarked on a scary experience. She left her comfortable farm home in eastern Washington and went to Washington, D.C., where for six weeks she roamed the streets as a bag lady. Her interest grew out of a visit to the nation`s capital, where she became concerned about the plight of the poor. "I wanted to know how they lived and I wanted to know how they felt when people were rude to them or treated them like they didn`t exist.