What is The Redeemer's Friends

In "Just Enough for the City," the Redeemer's Friends look sheepish, but are self-righteous and smug. They are more direct than competing proselytists. Anything not in the Bible is false, and God has said openly what he will do at the end of time. The anonymous narrator respect this but teases them, believing as a realist one must accept evil has its rights and virtue can be as clumsy as evil is vigilant, both adding to the world's store of cripples. The Redeemer's Friends send in reinforcements in the form of a stout and very black woman, who declares false religions will crumble before the Redeemer. The narrator finds her lack of doubt irritating, and offers a parable they cannot answer, but vow to visit again when the narrator is in a better mood. The narrator loves the Redeemer's Friends' steadfastness and admits with the earlier ministers a much more mature white minister who defers to the black woman as she prepares to confront the narrator's latest foolishness. The narrator offers another parable that convinces them he is hop less and they leave happily.