Cut Pastor's Salary Despite His Revolver

1932

ATLANTA, Ga., April 22. — Brethren of the Sin No More Church here are without a pastor.

The "renancial" committee met to talk over money matters and compare the littleness of the income with the bigness of the outgo. They decided to cut the pastor's salary.

But the pastor, the Rev. H. J. Blakeley, happened to be present and strongly objected to the move. The argument became heated and the Rev. Blakeley whipped a big revolver from under his coat tails to enforce his point of view.

He did. But after the pastor had gone the committee called the police. Officers sought the gun-toting pastor but in vain.

—New Castle News, New Castle, PA, April 22, 1932, p. 20.