Preacher Has Four Reasons To Be Exempt From Military

1918

PREACHER HAS FOUR REASONS FOR CLAIMING EXEMPTION

CONNELSVILLE, Pa. — Rev. A. Breakiron, of Breakneck, near here, would be surprised if he were summoned into military service. Reasons for his exemption, as shown by his questionnaire, are: "First, that he is an ordained minister of the Church of God. Second, that he has a wife and three children solely dependent on him for support. Third, that he tills a small farm in summer and is thereby entitled to agricultural classification. Fourth, that he is a coal miner. His salary as a minister is not enough to maintain his family and during the winter he digs coal.


FIGHTING PARSONS" ARE NOT GONE BY ANY MEANS

CLEVELAND, O.—The "fighting parson" is not yet gone. Twenty ministers of the Methodist church, attending a conference here, held a reunion of men who had fought in the Civil war. "Fighting in '63 made me a better Methodist preacher," one old-timer warrior asserted.

"Our fathers pushed Christianity into this country at the point of their bayonets: we saved its ideals in 1861 with cannon and sword, and now our sons are upholding it with their rifles on the western front," said another grizzled veteran of Grant's armies.

—Oxnard Courier, Oxnard, CA, Oct. 21, 1918, p. 4.