1900
Dr. James M. Gray, who has been engaged in teaching in the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago during the summer, will spend the winter in New England conducting his classes in the synthetic study of the Bible in Boston and elsewhere as usual, beginning in the fall.
Dr. Thomas McClelland, the new president of Knox College, was president of Tabor College several years ago. At that time he wanted a railroad to connect Tabor with the rest of the world. Failing to interest other roads in the enterprise, he built it himself and afterwards sold it on favorable terms to the Burlington.
Major D. W. Whittle, who is said to be dying in East Northfield, Mass., is one of the best-known evangelists in the country. "There Shall be Showers of Blessing" and "I Know Whom I Have Believed" are two of his most familiar hymns. For two years Major Whittle has been confined to his bed by rheumatic fever.
—The Ram's Horn, Nov. 17, 1900. p. 23.
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Priest Makes a Deal with Coughing Congregation
1874
The Tablet relates a story of a priest who had a coughing congregation, and who cured them thus: No sooner had he ceased to speak than, singular to relate, one cough after another died out until soon there was absolute silence in the church. Whereupon the father said something to the following effect: "My friends, I know that in this weather colds abound, and therefore it is difficult for you to refrain from coughing. Still it is impossible for me to preach and for you to cough at the same time. Let us come, then, to a mutual agreement, so that you may cough and I may preach without disturbing each other. I will speak say for five or ten minutes at a time; when I raise my handkerchief there will be an interval allowed for coughing. As soon as I let it fall I will resume my sermon, and your silence." The plan succeeded admirably.
Couldn't Blow His Horn in That Church
An organist, for many years engaged in one of the noted churches in this city, tells this:
A strange man was acting as sexton. An old gentleman who was deaf took his seat in a pew, and produced from his pocket an ear-trumpet of curious shape, and to the dismay of the temporary sexton, raised it toward his face. The sexton sprang to his side, and said something in a low voice, whereupon the gentleman endeavored to raise the trumpet to his ear, but was prevented by the sexton seizing his hand. With increasing voice and excitement, he said, "You mustn't, Sir. You mustn't blow that horn in here. If you do, I shall be obliged to put you out!" And the good old man, pocketing the bugle, heard nothing of the service or sermon.
The Tablet relates a story of a priest who had a coughing congregation, and who cured them thus: No sooner had he ceased to speak than, singular to relate, one cough after another died out until soon there was absolute silence in the church. Whereupon the father said something to the following effect: "My friends, I know that in this weather colds abound, and therefore it is difficult for you to refrain from coughing. Still it is impossible for me to preach and for you to cough at the same time. Let us come, then, to a mutual agreement, so that you may cough and I may preach without disturbing each other. I will speak say for five or ten minutes at a time; when I raise my handkerchief there will be an interval allowed for coughing. As soon as I let it fall I will resume my sermon, and your silence." The plan succeeded admirably.
Couldn't Blow His Horn in That Church
An organist, for many years engaged in one of the noted churches in this city, tells this:
A strange man was acting as sexton. An old gentleman who was deaf took his seat in a pew, and produced from his pocket an ear-trumpet of curious shape, and to the dismay of the temporary sexton, raised it toward his face. The sexton sprang to his side, and said something in a low voice, whereupon the gentleman endeavored to raise the trumpet to his ear, but was prevented by the sexton seizing his hand. With increasing voice and excitement, he said, "You mustn't, Sir. You mustn't blow that horn in here. If you do, I shall be obliged to put you out!" And the good old man, pocketing the bugle, heard nothing of the service or sermon.
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Self-Styled Elijah III is Weak From Illness
1905
Chicago, Dec. 4. — That Dr. John Alexander Dowie has not recovered entirely from the effects of the stroke of paralysis which he suffered last September, was evidenced yesterday during his sermon in the Shiloh tabernacle in Zion City. He scarcely had begun his remarks, standing in the center of the platform, when he grew weak and for a moment was unable to continue. Assuring his followers that he was not ill, he drew a chair to the front of the platform and continued his address while sitting.
His voice did not show its old time power and he spoke in low tones. He referred to the persecution of Jews and said that he would dismiss any Zionite whom he heard speak slightingly of Jews. Dowie concluded his address, which lasted twenty-five minutes, stating that, while he felt weak and unwell, he believed he would live many years. His final remark produced a feeling or sorrow among his followers. He said:
"I shall be your leader here, or, if not here, I will be in the hereafter."
Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1905
Talk on Modern Miracles
The gospel meetings at the West Jefferson street Church of Christ have met with such success that they are to be continued every night during this week. Mr. Allen's subject tonight will be "Modern Miracle-Working Exposed." Miss Helen Gill will sing.
—Fort Wayne Sentinel, Fort Wayne, IN, Dec. 4, 1905
Chicago, Dec. 4. — That Dr. John Alexander Dowie has not recovered entirely from the effects of the stroke of paralysis which he suffered last September, was evidenced yesterday during his sermon in the Shiloh tabernacle in Zion City. He scarcely had begun his remarks, standing in the center of the platform, when he grew weak and for a moment was unable to continue. Assuring his followers that he was not ill, he drew a chair to the front of the platform and continued his address while sitting.
His voice did not show its old time power and he spoke in low tones. He referred to the persecution of Jews and said that he would dismiss any Zionite whom he heard speak slightingly of Jews. Dowie concluded his address, which lasted twenty-five minutes, stating that, while he felt weak and unwell, he believed he would live many years. His final remark produced a feeling or sorrow among his followers. He said:
"I shall be your leader here, or, if not here, I will be in the hereafter."
Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1905
Talk on Modern Miracles
The gospel meetings at the West Jefferson street Church of Christ have met with such success that they are to be continued every night during this week. Mr. Allen's subject tonight will be "Modern Miracle-Working Exposed." Miss Helen Gill will sing.
—Fort Wayne Sentinel, Fort Wayne, IN, Dec. 4, 1905
Friday, May 18, 2007
Father and Healer Held After Child's Death
1906
FATHER AND HEALER ARE HELD
Death of Philadelphia Child Without Medical Aid Causes Arrests
Philadelphia, Feb. 24. — At the conclusion today of the coroner's inquest into the death of Grace Bates, 3 years old, Daniel Bates, the child's father, and Rev. Ambrose Clark, assistant pastor of Faith Tabernacle, were committed without bail for trial. The father is charged with criminal neglect and the clergyman is held as an accessory. The defendants are members of the Church of Christ and both testified that they endeavored to accomplish the recovery of the girl through prayer and that medical attention was not provided for the child, who died of typhoid fever.
FATHER AND HEALER ARE HELD
Death of Philadelphia Child Without Medical Aid Causes Arrests
Philadelphia, Feb. 24. — At the conclusion today of the coroner's inquest into the death of Grace Bates, 3 years old, Daniel Bates, the child's father, and Rev. Ambrose Clark, assistant pastor of Faith Tabernacle, were committed without bail for trial. The father is charged with criminal neglect and the clergyman is held as an accessory. The defendants are members of the Church of Christ and both testified that they endeavored to accomplish the recovery of the girl through prayer and that medical attention was not provided for the child, who died of typhoid fever.
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Chicago Woman Declares She Is Persecuted for Alleged Occult Power
1901
OUR CHICAGO BUREAU SPECIAL
Occidental Buildings, Sept. 6.
Persecuted for Witchcraft in Chicago
Persecuted and buffeted because some of her neighbors think she is witch with power to weave uncanny spells about her enemies — that is the complaint made by Mrs. Alexandrai Kostokas before a justice of the peace. Her tale of woe is directed particularly against Mrs. Mary Cohen and Thomas Kelley, who, she says, have made her life a burden by treating her as a practitioner of witchcraft.
A horse belonging to Mrs. Cohen died and Mrs. Kostokas was accused of exerting an occult influence over the animal. Then Mrs. Cohen's son was stricken with paralysis and the alleged witch was held responsible for the stroke. Mrs. Cohen also averred that her own illness was due to the sinister influence of her neighbor. Mrs. Kostokas says these stories have been circulated so persistently that others have really begun to think she is endowed with a supernatural power which she makes use of to the detriment of her neighbors. She seeks a way to end the alleged persecution and invokes the court's aid.
—Dubuque Daily Telegraph, Dubuque, Iowa, Sept. 6, 1901, p. 3.
OUR CHICAGO BUREAU SPECIAL
Occidental Buildings, Sept. 6.
Persecuted for Witchcraft in Chicago
Persecuted and buffeted because some of her neighbors think she is witch with power to weave uncanny spells about her enemies — that is the complaint made by Mrs. Alexandrai Kostokas before a justice of the peace. Her tale of woe is directed particularly against Mrs. Mary Cohen and Thomas Kelley, who, she says, have made her life a burden by treating her as a practitioner of witchcraft.
A horse belonging to Mrs. Cohen died and Mrs. Kostokas was accused of exerting an occult influence over the animal. Then Mrs. Cohen's son was stricken with paralysis and the alleged witch was held responsible for the stroke. Mrs. Cohen also averred that her own illness was due to the sinister influence of her neighbor. Mrs. Kostokas says these stories have been circulated so persistently that others have really begun to think she is endowed with a supernatural power which she makes use of to the detriment of her neighbors. She seeks a way to end the alleged persecution and invokes the court's aid.
—Dubuque Daily Telegraph, Dubuque, Iowa, Sept. 6, 1901, p. 3.
Friday, April 27, 2007
Unbelieving Father Asks Prayer For Dying Son
Chicago, 1907
PLEASE PRAY FOR BOY WHO IS DYING.
A year ago in the city of Chicago, says Dr. Chapman, there came a gentleman into the hotel where I was stopping to tell me that his wife had formerly been a member of my church. When I asked about himself he said he was an infidel. Then he began to speak so blasphemously of God that I insisted on his either ceasing or leaving my presence. Then he told me that his boy was ill, and that he was then on his way to pawn his overcoat to secure the price of the prescription. He refused financial aid and went away.
On Good Friday, when I was preaching to the men in the Young Men's Christian Association, I saw him put a note in the hand of the usher, and when I read the note it said: "Please pray for a boy who is dying. This request is sent by a believing mother, and carried by an unbelieving father." It was laid upon me to pray for the boy. I learned that he had pleuro-pneumonia, that the doctors had given him up, and that the mother had been informed that there was no hope. He was far beyond the danger point, and they were waiting for him to die.
At 12:30 o'clock I called upon Major James H. Cole to pray. It seemed to me as if I had never heard praying before. He prayed that God might save the boy for the sake of his father. And now will you hear the result? At 25 minutes of 1 o'clock, when the doctor had said the boy would be dead, he began to recover. He rose from his bed, he moved about the house a little later; he was soon about the city; and in an incredibly short space of time was at his work once more. God had heard and answered the prayer.
I heard that father stand upon his feet and say: "My friends, God has answered the prayer for my boy, and I want to know him," and I heard him later make as true a confession of Christ as I have ever heard. He is one of my devoted friends today, and I know that God answers prayer and says "Yes," when we speak to him.
PLEASE PRAY FOR BOY WHO IS DYING.
A year ago in the city of Chicago, says Dr. Chapman, there came a gentleman into the hotel where I was stopping to tell me that his wife had formerly been a member of my church. When I asked about himself he said he was an infidel. Then he began to speak so blasphemously of God that I insisted on his either ceasing or leaving my presence. Then he told me that his boy was ill, and that he was then on his way to pawn his overcoat to secure the price of the prescription. He refused financial aid and went away.
On Good Friday, when I was preaching to the men in the Young Men's Christian Association, I saw him put a note in the hand of the usher, and when I read the note it said: "Please pray for a boy who is dying. This request is sent by a believing mother, and carried by an unbelieving father." It was laid upon me to pray for the boy. I learned that he had pleuro-pneumonia, that the doctors had given him up, and that the mother had been informed that there was no hope. He was far beyond the danger point, and they were waiting for him to die.
At 12:30 o'clock I called upon Major James H. Cole to pray. It seemed to me as if I had never heard praying before. He prayed that God might save the boy for the sake of his father. And now will you hear the result? At 25 minutes of 1 o'clock, when the doctor had said the boy would be dead, he began to recover. He rose from his bed, he moved about the house a little later; he was soon about the city; and in an incredibly short space of time was at his work once more. God had heard and answered the prayer.
I heard that father stand upon his feet and say: "My friends, God has answered the prayer for my boy, and I want to know him," and I heard him later make as true a confession of Christ as I have ever heard. He is one of my devoted friends today, and I know that God answers prayer and says "Yes," when we speak to him.
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Christian Scientist Confident of Cure, Dies
March 11, 1903
Was a Christian Scientist
New York Young Woman Was Confident That It Would Cure Her, and Died
New York, March 11. — Coroner Williams of Brooklyn is investigating the case of Miss Lillian DeForest Chase, daughter of John H. Chase, an importer, who died of hasty consumption on her 21st birthday at the home at 1373 Pacific street.
Three years ago, while a student of Adelphi college, Miss Chase became a convert to Christian Science, and attended the Second Church of Christian Science, near her home.
Some months ago she suffered a severe attack of pneumonia, and it was only with difficulty that her parents got her to take medicine. When she recovered she declared that it was her belief in Christian Science and not medicine which had effected her cure. Her last illness extended over nearly a month. She refused to see a doctor, declaring her confidence that Christian Science would again restore her to health.
While her relatives were congratulating her on her birthday, she became suddenly faint and died.
Was a Christian Scientist
New York Young Woman Was Confident That It Would Cure Her, and Died
New York, March 11. — Coroner Williams of Brooklyn is investigating the case of Miss Lillian DeForest Chase, daughter of John H. Chase, an importer, who died of hasty consumption on her 21st birthday at the home at 1373 Pacific street.
Three years ago, while a student of Adelphi college, Miss Chase became a convert to Christian Science, and attended the Second Church of Christian Science, near her home.
Some months ago she suffered a severe attack of pneumonia, and it was only with difficulty that her parents got her to take medicine. When she recovered she declared that it was her belief in Christian Science and not medicine which had effected her cure. Her last illness extended over nearly a month. She refused to see a doctor, declaring her confidence that Christian Science would again restore her to health.
While her relatives were congratulating her on her birthday, she became suddenly faint and died.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Billy Sunday Lashes Syracuse Women in Tabernacle
Syracuse, New York, 1915
BILLY SUNDAY LASHES WOMEN IN TABERNACLE
BUT HE TELLS SYRACUSE MEN ARE MUCH WORSE THAN WOMANKIND
"YOU WOMEN CAN MAKE HOME A HELL OR HEAVEN," SAYS EVANGELIST
SYRACUSE, N. Y., Nov. 12. — Syracuse is smarting today under the vigorous lashing for card playing, beer drinking and unGodliness administered by Rev. "Billy" Sunday, who is holding revival meetings here.
"Broken homes and broken lives seem to go hand in hand. They are inseparably connected," shouted Sunday, in an excoriation of vice.
"Many sons and daughters are brought up in idleness. The women are silly, frivolous, extravagant. They allow themselves to be flattered, cajoled and bamboozled by a lot of jilted jays with cracked characters.
"You women can make a hell of a home or a heaven of a home.
MOTHERS NEGLECT HOMES
"I tell you what's the matter with you mothers: You are neglecting your home for the lodge, for your clubs, for your literaries and your societies.
"I don't want to advocate that you should lick your children all the time, but when it's needed. There are homes in which the switch should hang on the wall and underneath it the motto: 'I Need Thee Every Hour.'
"I believe that if the motherhood of this country were no better than the manhood, God would dump the whole thing in hell.
"You'll never save Syracuse from intemperance if you run a booze joint in your home and keep beer and wine in your cellar.
"You can put a library on every corner and let every church member be a college graduate, but that will never save you from hell.
SCRUB THE HOBO — BAH!
"You can have your clubs, your literary societies and your Keeley cures; you can go into the red light districts and have a girl add a few ruffles to her dress to lengthen it; you can scrub the hobo, but that will never save anyone.
"Do you suppose that God wants to work with a hand that is lifting a beer glass one minute and a deck of cards or a novel the next?
"If a church member plays cards he ought to be expelled from church.
"Many a life knows no song. They seem to say: Where is the joy that once I knew when first I loved the Lord?
"It's back where you left it — back there where you sidestepped your virtue and winked at another woman.
"I have known boys who made a success of life who had an old materialistic, irreligious father, but I never knew of anyone to succeed who had a Godless, card playing mother.
"When Napoleon Bonaparte was asked, 'What do you regard as the greatest need of France?' he replied, 'Mothers, mothers, mothers.'
LAUDS TRUE MOTHERS
"I believe that the greatest work done in this world is done by true mothers. The last thing the devil robs a boy of is what he learned at mother's knee."
"Once when my wife was ill, the doctor said she should have some beer. I ordered a case, then thought better of it and said:
"'Wife, I'll see you in your coffin before I'll give you beer.'
"I think the doctor was a liar, and the doctor who prescribes beer is nothing but a jackass."
—The Lima Daily News, Lima, Ohio, November 12, 1915, page 9.
BILLY SUNDAY LASHES WOMEN IN TABERNACLE
BUT HE TELLS SYRACUSE MEN ARE MUCH WORSE THAN WOMANKIND
"YOU WOMEN CAN MAKE HOME A HELL OR HEAVEN," SAYS EVANGELIST
SYRACUSE, N. Y., Nov. 12. — Syracuse is smarting today under the vigorous lashing for card playing, beer drinking and unGodliness administered by Rev. "Billy" Sunday, who is holding revival meetings here.
"Broken homes and broken lives seem to go hand in hand. They are inseparably connected," shouted Sunday, in an excoriation of vice.
"Many sons and daughters are brought up in idleness. The women are silly, frivolous, extravagant. They allow themselves to be flattered, cajoled and bamboozled by a lot of jilted jays with cracked characters.
"You women can make a hell of a home or a heaven of a home.
MOTHERS NEGLECT HOMES
"I tell you what's the matter with you mothers: You are neglecting your home for the lodge, for your clubs, for your literaries and your societies.
"I don't want to advocate that you should lick your children all the time, but when it's needed. There are homes in which the switch should hang on the wall and underneath it the motto: 'I Need Thee Every Hour.'
"I believe that if the motherhood of this country were no better than the manhood, God would dump the whole thing in hell.
"You'll never save Syracuse from intemperance if you run a booze joint in your home and keep beer and wine in your cellar.
"You can put a library on every corner and let every church member be a college graduate, but that will never save you from hell.
SCRUB THE HOBO — BAH!
"You can have your clubs, your literary societies and your Keeley cures; you can go into the red light districts and have a girl add a few ruffles to her dress to lengthen it; you can scrub the hobo, but that will never save anyone.
"Do you suppose that God wants to work with a hand that is lifting a beer glass one minute and a deck of cards or a novel the next?
"If a church member plays cards he ought to be expelled from church.
"Many a life knows no song. They seem to say: Where is the joy that once I knew when first I loved the Lord?
"It's back where you left it — back there where you sidestepped your virtue and winked at another woman.
"I have known boys who made a success of life who had an old materialistic, irreligious father, but I never knew of anyone to succeed who had a Godless, card playing mother.
"When Napoleon Bonaparte was asked, 'What do you regard as the greatest need of France?' he replied, 'Mothers, mothers, mothers.'
LAUDS TRUE MOTHERS
"I believe that the greatest work done in this world is done by true mothers. The last thing the devil robs a boy of is what he learned at mother's knee."
"Once when my wife was ill, the doctor said she should have some beer. I ordered a case, then thought better of it and said:
"'Wife, I'll see you in your coffin before I'll give you beer.'
"I think the doctor was a liar, and the doctor who prescribes beer is nothing but a jackass."
—The Lima Daily News, Lima, Ohio, November 12, 1915, page 9.
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