1895
Is it unlawful to quote Scripture? Yes, in some cases and for some purposes.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that a grand jury in Ohio indicted a man for sending a slanderous postal card to one of his debtors. The objectionable matter consisted of three Biblical quotations:
"Owe no man anything."
"Let us walk honestly."
"Many days and years shall ye be troubled."
The grand jury, it appears, did not admit the right of a man to call his neighbor a thief, even in Scriptural phraseology.
Showing posts with label debts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label debts. Show all posts
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Saturday, April 12, 2008
The Soldier and The Czar
1900
When a Russian soldier, heavily in debt, wrote out a list of his many obligations and exhibited it in a public place, adding in large letters the question: "Who will pay these debts?" the Czar happened to see the whimsical notice, and quietly wrote his name after the question: "Nicholas."
The soldier knew that he was free from his creditors. As simple as this, absolutely as simple, is the soul's way to get rid of its sins.
—The Ram's Horn, March 17, 1900, p. 14.
When a Russian soldier, heavily in debt, wrote out a list of his many obligations and exhibited it in a public place, adding in large letters the question: "Who will pay these debts?" the Czar happened to see the whimsical notice, and quietly wrote his name after the question: "Nicholas."
The soldier knew that he was free from his creditors. As simple as this, absolutely as simple, is the soul's way to get rid of its sins.
—The Ram's Horn, March 17, 1900, p. 14.
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Remits Dime After 7 Years
1920
Conscience Prompts Man to Pay Debt He Couldn't Forget
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Elmer Green of Mitchell, has sent Walter Simmons, Louisville hardware dealer, 10 cents which he owed for seven years on a baseball glove.
"I owe you 10 cents on a baseball mitt I bought seven years ago," Green writes, "so I hope you will forgive me and let me know if you will accept the dime. The Lord has saved me, and I have had no peace because I haven't paid you. I want to make everything right so I won't have to come up short at the judgment bar of God."
1896
Gods on the Average
The average Japanese god is sixty feet high.
The latest fad is to tell people's characters by their teeth.
The foundation of a church at San Como, Guatemala, has been shifted seven inches by the growth of two large white gum trees.
Conscience Prompts Man to Pay Debt He Couldn't Forget
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Elmer Green of Mitchell, has sent Walter Simmons, Louisville hardware dealer, 10 cents which he owed for seven years on a baseball glove.
"I owe you 10 cents on a baseball mitt I bought seven years ago," Green writes, "so I hope you will forgive me and let me know if you will accept the dime. The Lord has saved me, and I have had no peace because I haven't paid you. I want to make everything right so I won't have to come up short at the judgment bar of God."
1896
Gods on the Average
The average Japanese god is sixty feet high.
The latest fad is to tell people's characters by their teeth.
The foundation of a church at San Como, Guatemala, has been shifted seven inches by the growth of two large white gum trees.
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Dowie Swears If He Had His Rights
Illinois, 1906
Then He Would Not Be a Bankrupt as His Enemies Allege
Chicago, May 16. — Attorneys for Dowie today filed an answer in the federal court in the receivership proceedings brought against Dowie some time ago. In his answer Dowie denied that he is insolvent, if all his property was restored to him.
Judge Landis, before whom the arguments were made, entered an order directing the attorneys to leave the matter alone, saying he would settle it himself.
Riots broke out again in Zion City yesterday, following disorder which attended Dowie's effort to address his followers in Shiloh Tabernacle Sunday. Crowds numbering hundreds gathered on Shiloh boulevard, near the general store in the afternoon, and engaged in a furious argument over the respective merits of their leaders, and the questions at issue in the struggle of "Doctor" Dowie and Overseer Veliva for supremacy.
One Dowieite was handled roughly by the mob and serious consequences were only averted by the arrival of the Zion police in answer to a riot call.
James Slater, a negro adherent of the "First Apostle," was escorted to safety by the officers, after being mobbed for his sturdy defense of Dowie. The crowd assembled again after the departure of the police, and another riot call was sent in, which brought out all the reserves of the station, led by Police Captain Walker himself. The mob was forced off the street corners and ordered to disperse.
FEAR FURTHER TROUBLE
The police are apprehensive of further trouble and have called in all their patrolmen from outlying points for possible emergency duty. Slater is said to have started the trouble by exploiting the virtues of Dowie to a crowd near the general store. He was interrupted by loud cries of:
"Dowie has all of my money."
"Dowie is a robber."
"Why doesn't he pay his debts?"
The negro became frightened and ran. He was overtaken by the mob and in turn rescued by the police,
DOWIE CHARGES CONTEMPT
Dowie took personal charge of seeking punishment of persons who caused disorder at his meeting Sunday. He instructed his attorney, Emil C. Witten, to draw Judge Wright's attention to the fact that the terms of the court order issued at the first hearing of the injunction proceedings against Veliva, to the effect that the "First Apostle's" meetings should not he interfered with had been grossly violated. He also ordered his counsellors to announce that all negotiations for the appointment of a triumvirate were off, and that the court proceedings should proceed.
—The Daily Review, Decatur, IL, May 15, 1906, p. 1.
Then He Would Not Be a Bankrupt as His Enemies Allege
Chicago, May 16. — Attorneys for Dowie today filed an answer in the federal court in the receivership proceedings brought against Dowie some time ago. In his answer Dowie denied that he is insolvent, if all his property was restored to him.
Judge Landis, before whom the arguments were made, entered an order directing the attorneys to leave the matter alone, saying he would settle it himself.
Riots broke out again in Zion City yesterday, following disorder which attended Dowie's effort to address his followers in Shiloh Tabernacle Sunday. Crowds numbering hundreds gathered on Shiloh boulevard, near the general store in the afternoon, and engaged in a furious argument over the respective merits of their leaders, and the questions at issue in the struggle of "Doctor" Dowie and Overseer Veliva for supremacy.
One Dowieite was handled roughly by the mob and serious consequences were only averted by the arrival of the Zion police in answer to a riot call.
James Slater, a negro adherent of the "First Apostle," was escorted to safety by the officers, after being mobbed for his sturdy defense of Dowie. The crowd assembled again after the departure of the police, and another riot call was sent in, which brought out all the reserves of the station, led by Police Captain Walker himself. The mob was forced off the street corners and ordered to disperse.
FEAR FURTHER TROUBLE
The police are apprehensive of further trouble and have called in all their patrolmen from outlying points for possible emergency duty. Slater is said to have started the trouble by exploiting the virtues of Dowie to a crowd near the general store. He was interrupted by loud cries of:
"Dowie has all of my money."
"Dowie is a robber."
"Why doesn't he pay his debts?"
The negro became frightened and ran. He was overtaken by the mob and in turn rescued by the police,
DOWIE CHARGES CONTEMPT
Dowie took personal charge of seeking punishment of persons who caused disorder at his meeting Sunday. He instructed his attorney, Emil C. Witten, to draw Judge Wright's attention to the fact that the terms of the court order issued at the first hearing of the injunction proceedings against Veliva, to the effect that the "First Apostle's" meetings should not he interfered with had been grossly violated. He also ordered his counsellors to announce that all negotiations for the appointment of a triumvirate were off, and that the court proceedings should proceed.
—The Daily Review, Decatur, IL, May 15, 1906, p. 1.
The Deadbeat Prophet
Illinois, 1906
Yes, why does not John Alexander Dowie, "First Apostle," pay his debts? That question was bandied forth and back in Zion Sunday and it broke up a meeting arranged by Dowie. Police were called in, but they could do little more than keep the faithful and deluded from strangling each other.
It is a pity that it could not have been answered for Dowie that his debts have been paid. It appears that in these days it is necessary for a man to pay his bills if he lays any claim to being an apostle. The one who will not pay may overlay himself with a coating of seeming sanctity and saintliness and apostleship, but his competitors for the favor of the faithful are likely to get him in a corner at any time and call him a deadbeat The opponents of a professedly pious man are inclined at times to get raggedly familiar with him if he does not and will not pay his bills.
The lesson to be learned from all this is that if you expect to play the role of apostle with success here on earth it has become necessary for you to keep the finances straight. Certainly the time will come when a prophet who does not pay his bills will find himself without honor at home.
—The Daily Review, Decatur, IL, May 14, 1906, p. 4.
Yes, why does not John Alexander Dowie, "First Apostle," pay his debts? That question was bandied forth and back in Zion Sunday and it broke up a meeting arranged by Dowie. Police were called in, but they could do little more than keep the faithful and deluded from strangling each other.
It is a pity that it could not have been answered for Dowie that his debts have been paid. It appears that in these days it is necessary for a man to pay his bills if he lays any claim to being an apostle. The one who will not pay may overlay himself with a coating of seeming sanctity and saintliness and apostleship, but his competitors for the favor of the faithful are likely to get him in a corner at any time and call him a deadbeat The opponents of a professedly pious man are inclined at times to get raggedly familiar with him if he does not and will not pay his bills.
The lesson to be learned from all this is that if you expect to play the role of apostle with success here on earth it has become necessary for you to keep the finances straight. Certainly the time will come when a prophet who does not pay his bills will find himself without honor at home.
—The Daily Review, Decatur, IL, May 14, 1906, p. 4.
Saturday, June 2, 2007
Runaway Pastor is Found
1914
Writes Home at Cawden, Ill., He Left Wife and Parishioners to Escape Debts
Decatur, Ill., Feb. 20. — Rev. O. M. Eaton, pastor of the Christian church at Cawden, Ill., who has been missing since Feb. 10, has been located at Lebanon, Mo. A letter from him to B. E. Prater, cashier of the Cawden National bank, recites he left home because of debts.
The pastor told his wife he was going to Flora, Ill., on business. When he did not return next day a search was instituted.
Eaton wrote that he was employed and would send money to his aged parents soon. His wife and two daughters are at the home of her parents.
Writes Home at Cawden, Ill., He Left Wife and Parishioners to Escape Debts
Decatur, Ill., Feb. 20. — Rev. O. M. Eaton, pastor of the Christian church at Cawden, Ill., who has been missing since Feb. 10, has been located at Lebanon, Mo. A letter from him to B. E. Prater, cashier of the Cawden National bank, recites he left home because of debts.
The pastor told his wife he was going to Flora, Ill., on business. When he did not return next day a search was instituted.
Eaton wrote that he was employed and would send money to his aged parents soon. His wife and two daughters are at the home of her parents.
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