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THE 
 
 CRIMES of PREACHERS 
 
 IN THE 
 
 United States and Canada 
 
 PROM MAY, 1876, TO MAY, 1883. 
 
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 "By their fruits shaU ye know them I Do meu gather grapes of 
 thorns, or figs of thistles?" 
 
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 CRIMES of BREACHEftS 
 
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 i .United fltates and Canada 
 
 FROM MAY, 1870, TO MAY, l88a 
 
 SCGOSTD BDITION. 
 
 TRANSLATED OUT OF THE OBIGINAL NEWSPIPERS, AND WITH 
 PBEVIOUB TRANSLATIONS DIUOENTLV OOM- 
 PABBD AND BEVISED. 
 
 BY M. E. BILLINGS. 
 
 AUTHOR OF "PBEVENTION OF CRIME." efC, " UNBOLT 
 BIBLE. HOLY MEN AND WOMEN OF THE 
 
 BIBLE," •• HOLT CROSS," AND MANX 
 OTHEB LIBERAL WORKS. 
 
 "By their fruits shaU ye know them I Do men gather grapes of 
 thorns, or figs of thistles ?" 
 
 ISSUED YEARLY. 
 
 NEW' YORK: 
 
 D. M. BENNETT, 141 EIGHTH STBEET, 
 
 1882. ^ 
 
• 
 
 PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR TO FIRST 
 
 EDITION.. 
 
 So long as fear rules the heart ; so long as supersti- 
 tion controls men's actions; so long as imagination 
 creates a god of horror who ruless witii despotic tyr- 
 anny; so long as ignorance can be made to believe 
 that the preacher or priest is in some way a go-between 
 or agent between man and tiie powers in the clouds, 
 that he is a sky pilot, directly commissioned by deity 
 to attend to god's affairs on earth ; and that the priest's 
 person and office are sacred ; just so long and no longer 
 will such a useless class of men be possible as the 
 modern priesthood. 
 
 If, then, it is made to appear that the preachers as a 
 class are more criminal than any other class of people; 
 that they are so without the excuse of want or igno- 
 rance; without reason other than because of their lasy 
 lives and false creeds; then their dupes cannc '.am 
 that fact too soon. 
 
 These data are drawn almost entirely from the re- 
 port as the same was published in some newspaper, 
 the article having been clipped out and preserved in a 
 scrap-book duly indexed. The author will be grate- 
 ful to anyone who will cut out and send him any such, 
 sending name of paper and date, as this interesting 
 record will be continued, unless Anthony Comstock 
 shall prohibit it as "obscene." 
 Waverly. Iowa. 
 
PEEFACE BY THE AUTHOR TO SECOND 
 
 EDITION. 
 
 In issuing the first editioa of this work, in 1881, it 
 was announced that it would be a "continued love 
 story ;" and friends were invited to send the author 
 clippings from newspapers, giving date and name 
 of paper. Many good friends have done so, and the 
 result shows that the author was correct in estimating 
 that not one-half of the offenses charged against the 
 clergy had been seen by himself. 
 
 Since publishing the first edition a flood of vituper- 
 ation, slander, and falsehood has been poured upon the 
 luckless wight who dared to publish such an exposd 
 A few have attempted to deny the charges against the 
 reverend dead-beats, and in each instance have failed. 
 From all parts of the country the author has been in- 
 formed that the charges preferred were correct All 
 over the land, from Maine to Texas, from Oregon to 
 Louisiana, the pr t has noticed the work, either criti- 
 cising it in a friendly or unfriendly spirit The Liberal 
 press has universally commended the work, and as- 
 sisted in circulating it, and has the earnest thanks of 
 the author. 
 
 The necessity for such a work becomes apparent 
 when looking over the frightful list added during the 
 
 CZITZVC xiu.au vLia uxuxi\.c3x y xl- 
 
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 lains should be published send the author papers con- 
 taining such items. This " Labor of Love " will be 
 
▼I 
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 issued yearly so lont; as priestcraft lives a life of 
 crime, or until the author can write no longer. 
 Waverly, Iowa, June, 1882. 
 
 THE TEN PARSONS. 
 
 " TtiN little preachcra preaching love divine, 
 One kissed servant girl, llien tliero were 9. 
 Nine little preachers preaching sinners' fate, 
 One got drunk, then there were 8. 
 Eight little preachers showing path to Inaven, 
 One seduced a brother's wife, then there were 7. 
 Seven little preachers exposing Satan's ricks, 
 One beat Ins patient wife, then there were 6. 
 Six little preachers preaching Christ alive, 
 One debauched a little girl, then there were 5. 
 Five little preachers peaching ' sin no more,' 
 One raped a 'sister,' then there were 4. 
 Four little preachers, pure as tljey could be. 
 One raped an eightyear-old, then there were 3, 
 Three little* preachers, pity so few. 
 One murdered his paramour, then there were 2. 
 Two little preachers following the son. 
 One whipped his child to death, then there was 1. 
 One little preacher in ihc fold alone, 
 He committed suicide, then there were none." 
 
CRIMES OF PREACHERS. 
 
 Having met an article in the Cincinnati Ckmmerdal, 
 giving the names, places of residence, and facta consti- 
 tuting the crimes committed by preachers in the 
 •United States, giving forty instances, and entuled, 
 "Preachers' Pranks," I thought it might be well to 
 clip from newspapers such accounts for a time, and 
 
 record the result. 
 
 The lists were opened May, 1876, and closed for 
 
 first edition May, 1881. 
 
 If I was astonished it the fearful list of forty given 
 by the Cmtmercial, that attonishmeut paled into insig- 
 nificance when I had prepared the following array of 
 " preachers' crimes." It seems impossible that such a 
 record could be compiled with the meager means at 
 
 hand. j. . 
 
 These data have been the result of the reading by 
 the author, of four newspapers, and the casual reading 
 of seven others. These papers are published in the 
 states of Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Indiana, Illi- 
 nois, Iowa, and Missouri. None has been from the 
 Southern statos, none from the Pacific states. 
 
 rphe authov has roaaon to believe that he has not 
 collected more than one-half of the instances pub- 
 lished, no particular paias having been taken. 
 
8 
 
 CRIMES or PREACHERS. 
 
 It has been customary to drop the first names of 
 men who have "taken holy orders;" consequeatly 
 many a pious villain is recorded as Eev. Smith or 
 Rev. Jones. In some cases the place was not fully 
 given where "the crime was committed. In some in- 
 stances the offense is given the laconic name applied 
 by the ecclesiastical court which tried the criminal, as 
 "immoral conduct," "lascivious conduct," etc. ; names 
 probably given to hide the Crossness of the offense, 
 and to screen the reverend scoundrel in the interest of 
 Christ's church. 
 
 The author has besides a long list of offenses com- 
 mitted by these reverend " bilks," where the name is 
 entirely suppressed, as is supposed, out of respect for 
 his "sacred calling." 
 
 The denomination was not given in many instances 
 to which the "pious soul" belonged, consequently 
 this record will hardly do to rely upon to enable the 
 reader to ascertain what branch of "the church of 
 God " has shown the most efficiency in pastoral crimi- 
 nality. 
 
 Letters will be found placed after a name, as P. E. 
 for presiding elder, Ev. for Evangelist; for instance: 
 Carhart, Rev. J. W., P. E., and Bayliss, Rev. E L 
 Ev. The D.D., Ph.D., LL.D., and other addenda 
 purchased of those institutions called colleges and 
 theological seminaries— which are established and 
 maintained for the purpose of preventing men from 
 being educated— have not been preserved with any 
 great care. If any reverend gentleman feels aggrieved 
 
 bv the omisiflion if hm toiII aonri ♦/% fU^ -,..i.i ^\. . 
 
 :? - --T •• --• ......M rv- tiic uuniur iric cer- 
 
 tificate of the warden of the state prison where he is 
 
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CRIMES OP PREACHERa 9 
 
 confined, to the effect that he is entitled to such a dis- 
 tinction, the same shall be added in the next edition 
 of "Crimes of Preachers." 
 
 If any have been overlooked, and left out of this 
 illustrious category," and desire the distinction of 
 having their names made famous, they will please for- 
 ward the facts, certified by some responsible person 
 to the author, and they shall not go awav hungry. ' 
 
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 This shows the following result, as the offenses have 
 been charged against the clergy, and published, and 
 the printed report preseryed by the author, who, of 
 course, cannot vouch for the truth of the newspaper 
 statements : 
 
 Abortion, 4 
 
 Adultery 2O6 
 
 Assault — intent to murder. . 8 
 — ^intent to do great 
 
 bodily harm 1 
 
 — intent to commit 
 
 rape 1 
 
 — and battery 10 
 
 Attempted ^:-Iopement with 
 
 women 1 
 
 Attempt to seduce women . . 3 
 
 Abusive language 2 
 
 Attempted bigamy 5 
 
 Arson in burning houses 4 
 
 Bastardy 23 
 
 Beating wife 10 
 
 Bigamy 28 
 
 Breach of prociiso of mar- 
 riage 2 
 
 Buggery 3 
 
 Breach of hospitality 5 
 
 Breach of trust 2 
 
 Compounding felony 3 
 
 Compelling to marry i 
 
 Cruelty to animals l 
 
 Cheating 25 
 
 Deserting wife and children. 2fi 
 
 " Dishonesty " 1 
 
 " Deceit " 1 
 
 ''Debauchery" 2 
 
 " Died in a brothel " ji 
 
 Drunkenness 29 
 
 Dueling 1 
 
 Elopement with women, ... 17 
 
 Embezzlement 26 
 
 Escape from prison 2 
 
 False personation ^ . 1 
 
 "Falsehood" ., 3 
 
 Fighting >j 
 
 Forgery 22 
 
 Fornication 7 
 
 Fraudulent divorce i 
 
 £.audulent bankruptcy 1 
 
 Getting child drunk 1 
 
 Gambling 2 
 
 Gross fraud 4 
 
 " Gross Immorality " 3 
 
 " His tenets were those of 
 
 the last female he met " . . l 
 
 " Horse racing " 1 
 
 Illicit distilling 2 
 
 Illegal marrying 2 
 
 Immoral conduct 5 
 
 Improper conduct 1 
 
 Immoralities 1 
 
 Indecent familiarities with 
 
 Insulting personalities 2 
 
 Inhuman cruelty to wife and 
 
 children 17 
 
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 CBIMKS OF PREACHERS. 
 
 Immoral assault on women 
 
 and girls 29 
 
 Insulting ladies 26 
 
 Incest 6 
 
 Kissing servant girl for -'her 
 
 spiritual welfare" 2 
 
 Keeping gambling house. ... ] 
 
 Lascivious conduct 1 
 
 jLarceny 31 
 
 Literary piracy l 
 
 Lewdness 1 
 
 Lechery 1 
 
 Lying 12 
 
 Malicious mischief. 1 ; 
 
 Malicious trespass l 
 
 Miscegenat'nwithc'rdwomaa 1 
 
 Murder— generally 8 1 
 
 — of wi.''e 4 >• 14 
 
 — of hia child. , . 2 j 
 
 Nuisance ] 
 
 Obscene literature — publish- 
 ing -. 1 
 
 Obscene Kterature — sending 
 
 through mails 1 
 
 Obtaining money under false 
 
 pretenses 10 
 
 Perjury 7 
 
 Poisoning starving children . . 1 
 
 Profanity 3 
 
 Quarreling 7 
 
 Robbery 2 
 
 Rape in geaoral 5) . 
 
 on girl-, under 16. .6 >■ 18 
 on girls under 12. .7 ) 
 
 Riot 4 
 
 Robbing Mails \ 
 
 Recklessness *.'.*.'. 1 
 
 " Resigned under charges* 
 
 less said the better " i 
 
 Swindling 14 
 
 Seduction generally gi ) 
 
 girls under 15, 12 ) ^"^ 
 
 Slaveholder, a missionary. . I 
 
 Starving children 2 
 
 Subornation of perjury 1 
 
 Suicide w 
 
 Slander 7 
 
 Sodomy 4 
 
 Scandalous conduct 1 
 
 Too susceptible 1 
 
 Too free with the sisters. ... \ 
 
 Unchaste conduct i 
 
 Unministerial conduct 2 
 
 Unchristian conduct li 
 
 Unbecoming conduct. ...,., i 
 
 Unnamed crime 3 
 
 Unjust confinement of wife 
 
 in insane asylum 1 
 
 "Very uncourteous conduct.. 1 
 
 Vulgarity 2 
 
 Vile, indecent, and profane 
 
 language 1 
 
 Wanton conduct 1 
 
 "Whipped his 3-year-old boy 
 
 to death j 
 
 Total crimes committed from 
 May, 1876 to May, 1881. . 917 
 
 Of these 456 have been against women in a sexual 
 way, and 81 against women in other ways, or 644 
 against women especially. 
 
 Of this list of 477 criminal preachers, the denomina- 
 tion of but 208 has been preserved, leaving 268 not 
 credited to any denomination. Of the 208 who are 
 credited to denominations, the Methodists have 72* 
 the Baptists, 42; the Presbyterians, 22, the Catho- 
 
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 11 
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 2 
 
 1 
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 CBIMBS or PREACHERS. 
 
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 12; the Adventi8te. 6; the United Brethren,,**; the 
 Hebrew, 2; the Dunkards, 1: and the TJ^vis^^ 
 
 ISbS, J, 
 
 This 8how3 the following percentage in crime ac- 
 cording to denomination, viz. ; 
 
 about one criminal iu every 
 
 Methodists, 
 Baptists, 
 Presbyterians, 
 Catholics, 
 
 Congregationalists, 
 
 Luherans, 
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 Of the 208 criminals of whom the denomination is 
 given, the percentage is as follows : 
 
 Methodists, about 30 per cent. 
 
 Baptists, 20 
 
 Presbyterians, lo 
 
 Catholic, 9 
 
 Congregationalists, G 
 
 Lutheran, q 
 
 Episcopalians, 5 
 
 Campbellite*, about 3 per cent. 
 Adventists, 3 
 
 United Brethren, I.4 
 Hebrew, i 
 
 Drunkards, .5 
 
 Universalists, ,'5 
 
 By this ratio of the 917 crimes committed, as shown 
 by the above list, the different denominations have 
 been represented by their reverend criminals as fol 
 lows : 
 
 Methodist, 275 
 
 Baptist, 183 
 
 Presbjrterian, 91 
 
 Caiholic, g2 
 
 Congregationalist, 55 
 
 Luthern, 55 
 Protestant Episcopal, 45 
 
 Christian, 
 
 Adventist, 
 
 United Brethren, 
 
 Hebrew, 
 
 Drunkard, 
 
 UniverijaliBt, 
 
 27 
 27 
 12 
 
 4; 
 
 4 
 
 Can it be possible that the most orthodox are the 
 most criminal, and vice versa f Are men nearer pure 
 
54 
 
 CRIMES OF PREACHERS. 
 
 as regards crime the further they get from the ortho- 
 dox belief ? It seems so. Of this list of crmes, there 
 are 670 felonies. Of the definitions or distinctive 
 names given to the various offenses 83 are names 
 given by ^he several church courts where the reverend 
 scoundrel was tried, perhaps with a view to hide the 
 real offense, of course in the interests of religion, t 
 There were a great number of these, but by diligent 
 inquiry the compiler has been able to ascertain gener- 
 ally that "unchaste conduct" meant a gross and 
 beastly assault by the " divine messenger " upon and 
 against a lady's chastity; and that " unministerial 
 conduct" meant either adultery, rape or seduction 
 committed against some susceptible sister who had 
 confided in the lecherous "sky-pilot." Whenever 
 the true state of facts were ascertained, the crime was 
 set down by its right name. 
 
 The author has a large list of crimes, published 
 within the last five years, committed by these rev- 
 erend gentry, where the name of the reverend is not 
 given. Could the name be ascertained, the above 
 ist would be largely increased. It is presumed the 
 names were suppressed out of respect to the " sacred 
 ofl&ce " of the clerical scoundrels. 
 
 These data are almost entirely taken from a belt of 
 the United States between Canada and North Caro- 
 lina; almost all from Canada to Maryland, and from 
 the Atlantic to the Western plains — that is, from the 
 great " intellectual belt " of the nation, where most of 
 the great secular and religious journals are published, ' 
 
 .activity and of the greatest wealth. This " belt" com- 
 
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 CRIMES OF PBSACHEB& 
 
 65 
 
 prises not one-fourth of our area and not ^ne-half of 
 our population. 
 
 There are in the United States about seventy thou- 
 sand priests and preachers ; these data are drawn from 
 about thirty five thousand. 
 
 It is safe to say that not one-half of the published ; 
 accounts of preachers' crimes have been seen and the ' 
 account preserved by the author. 
 
 Eminent writers on crime estimate that but one 
 crime out of sixteen is detected and traced to the 
 criminal. There is no probability that half of those 
 which are ascertained are ever published, even when 
 there is no superstitious excuse for keeping it from the 
 public. 
 
 All these suggestions then assist the reader at arriv- 
 ing at a correct estimate as to the amount of crimi- 
 nality which exists among our "guides to holinesa" 
 For instance, if 36,000 preachers in the " intellectual 
 belt " of the United States commit 917 crimes in five 
 years, 70,000 preachers in the whole United States 
 commit 1,834 crimes ; if the author has collected but 
 one-half of the number published, then 70,000 preach- 
 ers have committed 8,668 in five years ; if but one 
 crime out of sixteen is traced to the criminal, then the 
 70,000 preachers have committed 29,344 in the United 
 States in the last five years ; and even that list must 
 be again doubled if but one-half of the instances of 
 discovered crime arc published. 
 
 Let any one bring his own knowledge of circum- 
 stances to bear upon this subject Could the moit 
 careful research discover and compile more than a 
 moiety of the crime committed ? *0f the crime com- 
 
60 
 
 CRIMKg OP PREACHERS. 
 
 i 
 
 mitted m ^ur great cities, how much sees the public 
 prints ? Of the drunkenness and debauchery so openly 
 and comnionly committed in one large city, how much 
 18 published? And you must recollect that the 
 preacher hides his crimes carefully, and his compeers 
 and parishioners assist him to conceal it; while the 
 mght-brawler, petty thief, and drunken wretch are un- 
 der police surveillance. 
 
 Is there not food for thought here ? Is it not time 
 the eye of the legislator, the magistrate, the police- 
 man, the detective, the parent, the public, was turned 
 toward this cesspool of pollution ? Is it not time the 
 journalist published his note of warning ? Is it not 
 time to investigate without suoerstition, without fear 
 without favor, and expose and punish without mercy 
 the men, who, having no excuse of want, of friendli- 
 ness, of homelessness, of want of confidence who 
 assume to be the very elite of society and the very elect 
 of (iod, commit more crime as a class than ten times 
 their number in any other class of society, than even 
 the most poverty-stricken, famished, houseless, home- 
 less, friendless, ignorant, degraded, imbecile or idiotic 
 class of the human family ? 
 
 The commission of crime depends -first, upon the 
 criminal desire of the felon ; second, upon the incen- 
 tive : third, upon the opportunity to commit the 
 crime. 
 
 ^ As to the first, the foregoing record shows that the 
 desue to commit crime is greater in this class of per- 
 sons than in any other. With a full knowledge of 
 our civil, criminal, and moral cede these gentry know, 
 mgiy, wickedly, and wilfully commit more crime than 
 
OBIMBS OF PREACHERa 
 
 57 
 
 ten times thirty their number in any other class of 
 peopb. Nor can the plea that the crime was the re- 
 sult of ignorance be interposed with them, as it can 
 be in nearly one-half of the cases where crime is com- 
 mitted by the illiterate and foolish. Then the fact 
 that of these 917 crimes committed by these "minis- 
 ters of God," 637 have been committed against wo- 
 men, 456 against the morality, chastity, and decency 
 of women, certainly evinces a criminal desire among 
 these 85,000 "holy men" unparalleled in any other 
 class of men. 
 
 Second— as to the incentive, our theory is thii: 
 Among the illiterate, ignorant, and semi-idiotic classes 
 there is an almost entire belief in the gods, devils, sa- 
 vioni, redeemers, and saints which the priesthood 
 hav(5 invented, and in their heaven and hell, offered as 
 a bribe and terror to the evil-doer. Although these 
 bribes and terrors do not in the main elevate and en- 
 noble mankind, yet to some extent they have re- 
 strained crime in the unlettered and imbecile classes, 
 through superstitious fear. On the other hand, the 
 " divine teachers " of these dogmas generally have no 
 belief therein ; and being accustomed to obtaining fat 
 livings, gorgeous attire, lives of ease and indolence, 
 ,and unmerited confidence and adulation from their 
 dupes, it becomes like second nature to them to gratify 
 every lust, desire, passion, prejudice, hate, covetous- 
 n3ss, and ambition. Generally, well knowing that the 
 creeds they teach are false, they come to look upon all ' 
 legal and moral restraint as an abridgement of their 
 rights, and upon all morality and virtue as a sham. 
 Of course theie are those among them who have 
 
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 ?% CRIMES OF PRBAOHBBS. 
 
 learned but little of anything, and that little only 
 what would confirm their superstitious feara and 
 hopei, who have never allowed themselves to investi- 
 gata the truth, and who have given a blind, unreason- 
 ing adherence to the doctrines jf salvation through 
 the atonement. These fii4hly believe that they can 
 escape the just reward of their evil deeds by means of 
 that "scapegoat ;" can avoid the penalty for crime and 
 again become "pure" througi. the great «' bankrupt 
 court" of "remission of sins." This branch of the 
 tribe of " sky-pilots " are even more dangerous than 
 the hypocritical ones, Onco fully convince a man 
 that he can by a "death-bed repentance " " shove by 
 justice " and in nine cases out of ten he will commit 
 any crime as fearlessly as does the wild Malay, who 
 rushes amuck through the streets with his gleaming 
 knife cutting down his fellows on every hand until he 
 too is struck down, firmly believing that when he is 
 killed his soul will at once ascend to paradise. Ac- 
 cordingly, the honest divine falls into temptation and 
 gets up besmirched with crime ; at once falls upon his 
 knees, receives the holy "ilnction" and gets up 
 "washed white as snow." 
 
 Third— as to the opportunity to commit crime, the 
 " servant of God " has much the advantage of the serv- 
 ant of toil. He is to some extent entrusted with 
 money because of his " holy orders." He is generally 
 tolerated everywhere because of his "sanctity." He 
 becomes the instructor of youth by virtue of his 
 "nearness to God." He recommends persons to places 
 
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 recommends Mra Winslow's snoozing syrup by virtue 
 

 CRIMK3 OF PREACHKRa 59 
 
 of his experience as a "child of immortality" (of 
 course he never takes pay for such services). He as- 
 sumes to introduce himself to anyone and anywhere 
 even to a lady stranger, insisting upon taking her by 
 the hand as a "messenger from Jesus," a familiarity 
 ishe would resent on the part of an honest tiller of the 
 801] He enters our homes without invitation and 
 while a stranger, and volunteers advice upon all earthly 
 subjects of which he knows but little, and upon all 
 heavenly subjects, of which he knows nothing 
 
 The assumed position of a preacher as a "spiritual 
 adviser peculiarly places him in a position to commit 
 crimes against morality, chastity, and decency The 
 danger of "pastoral visits," so strikingly exemplified 
 in the Beecher.Tilton scandal, has become almost im- 
 minent. During the middle ages, in Switzerland and 
 other countries, a new priest could not hear the pri- 
 vate confession of females until he had selected and 
 kept one or more mistresses ; but even such a salutary 
 provision would hardly have sufficed to keep some of 
 the gentlemen of our list within bounds. 
 
 The lazy, overfed life led by most 'of our clergy 
 superinduces lust, and the chances they have are 
 shown to have been largely improved ; over 400 cases 
 of beastly lechery out of 917 cases of crime exempli- 
 fies the fact. ^ 
 
 • '^.^LT'^ i ^/'""^ '"^ °^' S^"®'^^ population is 3.1 
 in 1,000, including the clergy. This list shows 29 
 crimes committed by each 1,000 "sky-pilots" and 
 these only so far as we have collected them from the 
 printed reports; if but half have been collected th.re 
 have been 58 crimes committed by each 1,000 preach- 
 
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 lit,. 
 
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 era in the last fire yean ; if but one crime in sixteen 
 has been published, there have been 928 crimes com-, 
 mitted by each 1,000 pr6achers in the "intellectual 
 belt " of these United States. The only question is, 
 do clergymen conceal tiieir criminality as effectually 
 as do other criminals. 
 
 These data are taken exclusively from accounts pub- 
 lished in newspapers. The abbreviation became neces- 
 sary on account of the multitude of priestly villains. 
 •* Some of the details are shocking. We have preserved 
 the printed report and can furnish the same to in- 
 quirers. 
 
 The ratio of criminals in American population is 2,7 
 to the 1,000, including the clergy. The above list 
 shows that out of 35,000 preachers 477 are criminals, 
 or 13. S to the 1,000. Making the same allowances as 
 before, for want of data, the number becomes 26.6 to 
 the 1,000 ; and if but one crime out of sixteen is dis- 
 covered in this amply protected and shielded class, 
 thenout of every 1,000 "ministers of the most high" . 
 425 are criminals, as against 176 to the 1,000 in all 
 classes, including the preachers, measured by the same 
 rule as to discovery, etc. 
 
 Now,, although we know that there are many plergy- 
 men 'Srho are good and honest men, and who consci- 
 entigusly teach the mythology of Christianity and are 
 eaniestly strivifig to benefit mankind, yet the convic- 
 tion is forced upon us that as a class they are the most 
 hypftcritical and criminal class of men; that their 
 knowledge that their savior is a fabled myth, com- 
 mon to religious enthusiasts in all ages and all lands, 
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 of the ignorance nod superstition of their dupes, makes 
 them per se criminally inclined. 
 Christian, how do you like this showing ? '"' Man of 
 - God," wjiat have you got to offer? This is rather a 
 «new departure, ia it not? What are you going to dp 
 about it? It will do little good to sig' for the good 
 old days when Christianity ruled supreme, when you[ 
 could at once invoke the aid of the axe, rack, the stake, 
 the- fagot, the thumbscrew, the iron bpot, and the 
 tongues of f^ re. The ghost of the murdered past will 
 not answer yottr call. Thanks to the advance of Free- 
 thought and to the legislative care of Washington, 
 Jefferson, Franklin, Paine, and other Infidel compeers,' 
 .there is a bound set to your despotic sway. What can 
 you do? Of course you can beseech an all-merciful 
 deity to bum the author forever hereafter ; but as he 
 Seems willing to take the chances of the hA-eafter, 
 and as your faith in that divine institution called hell 
 has of late been fearfully shaken— thanks to the 
 humanizing efforts of Infidels which has in a measure' 
 civilized your creed and stripped your God of half of 
 the horrible attributes you had given him— even that 
 sweetflolace ia hardly commensurate for the oecasion. 
 T^en what can you do ? Why,, it is terrible to know 
 that anyone dares hunt up and classify and publish* 
 to the world the crimes committed by the reverend 
 " follpwerft oT the meek and lowly Jesus f " It h^s al- 
 w4ys been an exclusive right belonging to the'priest- 
 hood to charge all crime upon Infidels ; to assert from 
 every '^coward's castle " in the land that but for un- 
 .„.,,... .„ ._...^ ..^^^„_^„„ _j_^gj. ^j. -^^^ uioini of a person 
 who they claim died some eighteen hundred and forty^ 
 
 
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 CRIMES or PREACHERS, 
 
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 eight years ago there would be no sin, no crime. It is a 
 rather strange experience to have the tables tmrned, 
 and to have an expose that shows a fearful balance of 
 crime against those who so earnestly believe and 
 teach the all-potent curative and preventive proper- 
 ties of the aforesaid blood. 
 
 Again we ask, what will the privileged class do 
 about it? And, being a Yankee, allow us t answer 
 oar own question. We have no way to judge of the 
 future but by the past. In the past these brassy gen- 
 try, with solemn-visaged falseliood, have from every 
 coward's castle in Christendom answered all the argu- 
 ments, facts, and figures adduced by skeptics by ma- 
 ligning the character of the reasoner or mathemati> 
 cian, especially if dead. " Unworthy to blacken the 
 shoes of their opponent, they blackened his charac- 
 ter." All this being more congenial to the taste of the 
 ordinary follower of the meek and lowly Jesus than 
 fair investigation and candid argument 
 
 With the ghoulishness of hyenas they have dvg into 
 the grave of Thomas Paine, and covered the honored 
 dust of the noble and defenseless dead with cesspool; 
 filth, calumny, falsehood, vituperation, hatred, and 
 slander. 
 
 " In the arsenal of the church, which once bristled 
 with magazines of destruction, there remains but one 
 weapon — slander." Col. Ingersoll will one day be 
 served as was Thomas Paine, for uttering such a 
 thought. " Once a donkey kicked a lion. The lion 
 wasc^eac?.' 
 
 TViia +.K»n ia ixrlia.t. arill Vk* d'^DC TTmTn t^rrarxr nil J. 
 
 pit will belch a stream of slander to hide by the cry of 
 
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CRIMES OF PREACHERS. 
 
 68 
 
 "Stop thief!" the reverend purloiner of female virtue, 
 the ravisher of children, the marderer of wife and 
 children, the beater of helpless women and babes, and 
 the "meek follower of Jesus," who whipped his three- 
 year-old boj to death ivv not correctly saying the 
 •'Lord's Prayer." 
 
 Well, after all this ip done will that establish the 
 innocence of the mui^ei r of Viary Stannard— of the 
 seducer of Mrs. Tilton ^Y:.l that prove beyond a 
 reasonable doubt that ministers never commit crime? 
 No! but the "galled jade winces " jast the same, and 
 be whose corns are trod upon is apt to cry out 
 
 The reason for this expose is apparent. For ages 
 all crime has been charged to Infidelity. Once it was 
 a brave man who dared announce disbelief in the 
 myths of Christianity. " To him who had braved the 
 church every door was shut, every knife was open." 
 Even in our day it was to be shunned as a pest and to 
 be ostracized from society to announce a disbelief in 
 the " immaculate conception." From every pulpit the 
 skeptics were charged with all the crime that darkens 
 the face of civilization. Eev. E. L. Baylibj -now, un- 
 fortunately for him, languishing in the penitentiary of 
 Michigan for seduction of Brother Phenix's wife and 
 eloping with her, deserting his wife and children— 
 while "evangelizing ' in the Baptist church at Waver, 
 ly, Iowa, invited all skeptics to come and hear his 
 convincing arguments against Infidelity I Many came 
 The buffoon took for his text " Let him that is unholy 
 
 be unholy still, and him that is filthy be filthy still " 
 
 __j J - .• 1 « , ... . -^ ' 
 
 auu puuiuu a, uraae or aouse upon iauies and gentle- 
 men of the best society. He said : " Let them alone ; 
 
64 
 
 CRIMES OF PREACHERS. 
 
 „! 
 
 come out from them. From skeptics comes all the 
 crime that darkens the face of civilization." The 
 skeptics were convinced that he was a cowardly slan- 
 derer, and arose and left, leaving him empty benches 
 to talk to. He can hardly claim that the short time 
 he remained so contaminated him that he shortly 
 afterward had to expiate it in state prison. 
 
 Allow us, then, to make the following offer : There 
 are of Freethinkers — including Atheists, Infidels, 
 Spiritualists, etc.— about seven millions in the United 
 States ; there are about seventy thousand priests and 
 preachers. Now, we make the following offer : We 
 we will give ten dollars apiece for crimes committed 
 by any of these classes of Freethinkers within the last 
 five years, and will take tha report thereof as pub- 
 lished in the newspapers ; provided, the preachers 
 will give us one dollar apiece for the same evidence of 
 crimes committed by reverends. Thus we offer ten 
 dollars for one, and give them seven millions to draw 
 their data from while we have but seventy thousand. 
 
 In the language of th.e far West, ** Put up or shutupr 
 
 The author will continue to publish these records 
 from year to year. Will friends be so kind as to clip 
 from papers such items, together with name and date 
 of the paper, and sena them to us for insertion ir fut- 
 ure editions ? 
 
 If a wrong has been done by inserting a name in 
 this list vhich should have been omitted, as where 
 some paper has maliciously published a falsehood 
 against t y one, we shall be only too glad to make 
 rcpufatioD, Our oujact ucing to uo exact justice to ali, 
 without fear or lalice. 
 
} 
 
 RECAPITULATION TO SECOND EDITION. 
 
 The following shows the aggregate Oi. each crime 
 charged, alphabetically arranged : 
 
 
 From 
 lffT6 
 to 
 
 Prom 
 
 
 CRIMES CHARGED. 
 
 1181 
 to 
 
 Totl 
 
 , ________^________ 
 
 1881. 
 
 4 
 
 1882. 
 
 
 Abortion, 
 
 3 
 
 7 
 
 Adultery, 
 
 206 
 
 86 
 
 292 
 
 Assault, intent to murder, 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 11 
 
 " " do great harm, 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 " " commit rape, 
 
 1 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 " and battery, i 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 20 
 
 Attempted elopement with w<nif»n, 
 
 1 
 
 
 1 
 
 Attempt to seduce women. 
 
 8 
 
 
 8 
 
 Abusive language, 
 
 2 
 
 
 2 
 
 Attempted bigamy, 
 
 6 
 
 3 
 
 8 
 
 Attempted suicide, 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 Arson, burning houses, i 
 
 4 
 
 2 
 
 6 
 
 Bastardy, 
 
 28 
 
 7 
 
 FO 
 
 Beating wife, 
 
 10 
 
 8 
 
 18 
 
 Beating women, 
 
 ; 
 
 
 2 
 
 Bigamy, ^ j 
 
 •28 
 
 8 
 
 86 
 
 Breach of promise of marriage, • 
 
 2 
 
 1 
 
 8 
 
 Buggery, 
 
 8 
 
 
 8 
 
 Breach of hospitality. 
 
 6 
 
 
 5 
 
 Breach of trust, ( 
 
 2 
 
 
 2 
 
 Compounding felony, 
 
 8 
 
 
 8 
 
 Compelling to marry, 
 
 1 
 
 
 1 
 
 Cruelty to animals, ' 
 
 i 
 
 
 1 
 
 Cheating, 
 
 25 
 
 13 
 
 38 
 
=i 
 
 Pi I 
 
 ■i ■ 
 
 66 
 
 CRIMES OF PREACHERS. 
 
 CRIMES CHARGED. 
 
 Deserting wife and children, 
 
 Dishonesty, 
 
 Deceit, 
 
 Debauchery, 
 
 Drowning his son, 
 
 Died in a brothel, 
 
 Drunk^nneaB, 
 
 Duelling, , 
 
 Elopement with women, 
 
 Embezzlement, 
 
 Escape from prison, 
 
 False personation, 
 
 Falsehood, 
 
 Fighting, 
 
 Forgery, 
 
 Fornication, 
 
 Fraudulent divorce. 
 
 Fraudulent bankruptcy, 
 
 Getting child drunk. 
 
 Gambling, 
 
 Gross fraud, 
 
 Gross immorality, 
 
 His tenets were those of the last fe 
 male he met. 
 
 Horse racing. 
 
 Illicit distilling. 
 
 Illegal marrying, 
 
 Immoral conduct, 
 
 Improper conduct, 
 
 Immoralities, 
 
 Indecent familiarities with women, 
 
 Insulting personalities, 
 
 Inhuman cruelty to wife and, children, 
 
 Immoral assault on women and girls, 
 
 Insulting ladies, 
 
 From 
 
 1876 
 
 to 
 
 1881. 
 
 28 
 i 
 1 
 2 
 
 1 
 
 29 
 
 1 
 
 17 
 26 
 2 
 7 
 3 
 • 7 
 22 
 7 
 1 
 1 
 1 
 2 
 4 
 8 
 
 1 
 1 
 2 
 2 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 17 
 29! 
 
 From 
 1881 
 to 
 
 1883. 
 
 18 
 •4 
 5 
 
 23 
 
 8 
 
 13 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 Tot'i 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 1 
 1 
 
 10 
 1 
 
 9 
 
 19 
 
 2HI 22 
 
 44 
 6 
 6 
 2 
 1 
 1 
 
 52 
 1 
 
 25 
 
 39 
 3 
 9 
 
 17 20 
 
 13 
 30 
 7 
 1 
 I 
 1 
 3 
 6 
 5 
 
 1 
 1 
 2 
 3 
 6 
 1 
 
 11 
 3 
 2 
 
 26 
 
 48 
 
 4:8 
 
CRIMES or PRBACHEPS, 
 
 67 
 
 CRIMES CHARGED. 
 
 44 
 6 
 
 6 
 2 
 1 
 1 
 62 
 1 
 26 
 39 
 3 
 9 
 20 
 13 
 30 
 7 
 1 
 I 
 1 
 3 
 6 
 5 
 
 Incest, 
 
 Kissing servant girl for spiriiaal wel- 
 fare, 
 Keeping gambling-houae, 
 Lascivious conduct, 
 Libel, 
 Larceny, 
 Literary piracy, 
 LewdnesB, 
 Lecijery, 
 Lying, 
 
 Malicious mischief, 
 Malicious trespass, 
 Miscegenation with negro woman. 
 Murder, in general, 8, " 
 
 " of wife, 4, 
 
 " of his child, 2, 
 Manslaughter, 
 Nuisance, 
 
 Obscene literature- -sending through 
 mail, 
 
 Obtaining money under false pretense 
 Perjury, ' 
 
 Poisoning starving children, 
 Profanity, 
 Quarreling, 
 Robbery, 
 
 Rape — in general, 5, 
 
 " on girls under 15 years, 6, 
 
 " " 12yeaifl, 7, 
 Riot, 
 
 Robbing mails. 
 
 Recklessness, 
 
 Resigned under charges, 
 
 Swindling, 
 
 From 
 
 1876 
 
 to 
 
 1881. 
 
 8 
 
 2 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 31 
 1 
 1 
 1 
 
 12 
 1 
 1 
 1 
 
 14 
 
 From 
 
 1881 
 
 to 
 
 1382. 
 
 Tot'l 
 
 12 
 
 21 
 
 4 
 
 30 
 
 1/ 
 
 If 
 
 1 
 
 52 
 S 
 1 
 1 
 42 
 1 
 1 
 2 
 
 19 
 
 1 
 
 a 
 
 4 
 
 10 
 
 13 
 
 23 
 
 7 
 
 
 7 
 
 1 
 
 
 1 
 
 3 
 
 2 
 
 5 
 
 7 
 
 7 
 
 14 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 6 
 
 18 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 20 
 
 4 
 
 2 
 
 6 
 
 1 
 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 24 
 
 20 
 
 44 
 
68 
 
 CRIMES or PREACHERS. 
 
 CRIME CHARGED. 
 
 91,1 
 
 Seduction — in general, 
 
 " girls under 16 years, 12 
 Slaveholding missionary, 
 Starving children, 
 Subornation of perjury, 
 Suicide, 
 Slander, 
 Sodomy, 
 
 Scandalous conduct. 
 Too sus'^^jrtible. 
 Too free with the sisters, 
 Unchaste conduct, 
 Unministerial conduct. 
 Unchristian conduct, 
 Unbecoming conduct, 
 Unnamed crime. 
 Unjust confinetoont of wife in insane 
 
 asylum, 
 Ye y uncottrteous conduct, 
 Vul^rity, 
 
 "Vile and indecent language. 
 Wanton conduct. 
 Whipped his three-year-old boy to 
 
 death for not correctly saying the 
 
 Lord's prayer, 
 
 Total crime charged, 
 
 Agaihst women in a sexaal way 
 Against women in other ways. 
 
 Total crimes against women, 
 
 From ; From 
 1876 188i 
 
 1^1 1882 
 
 ■I- 
 
 108 
 
 1 
 2 
 1 
 
 11 
 7 
 4 
 1 
 1 
 1 
 1 
 '2 
 11 
 1 
 3 
 
 1 
 1 
 2 
 1 
 
 58 
 
 2! 
 
 Tot 
 
 163 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 1 
 
 14 
 
 14 
 
 6 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 11 
 
 1 
 
 4 
 
 11 
 1 
 
 2 
 1 
 
 917 601 
 
 1418 
 
 456 
 81 
 
 687 
 
 220 
 41 
 
 261 
 
 676 
 122 
 
 r 
 
 798 
 
 m 
 
 
CRIMES OF PREACHER. 
 
 69 
 
 Tbe first edition places the Methodist divines at the 
 top of the criminal calendar. They still hold that 
 bad pre-euiinence. During the last year 159 of the 
 202 preachers charged with crime have been assigned 
 tu their respective churches: thus, Methodists, 64: 
 Baptists, 82; Catholics, 20; Episcopalians, 13; Con- 
 gregationalists, 10 ; Lutherans, 10 ; Presbyterians, 9 ; 
 Campbellites, 2 ; United Brethren, 2 ; Hebrews, 2 ; 
 Adventists, 1 ; Universalists, 1. So if the 35,000 holy 
 men have committed 73,000 sexual crimes during the 
 last year, the Methodist preachers have assisted in 
 24,333 cases, the Baptists in 12,000, the Catholics in 
 9,000, the Episcopalians in 7,000, the Congregational- 
 ists in 4,500, the Lutherans in 4,500, the Presbyterians 
 in 4,000, the Campbellites 1,000, the United Brethren 
 in 1,000, the Hebrews in 1,000, the Adventists in 500, 
 the Universalists in 500. 
 
 Again must we ask. Are men nearer pure the fai^ 
 ther they get from orthodoxy, and vice versa f 
 
 Then 220 of these crimes charged have been against 
 the morality, chastity, and decency of women ! H&a 
 the author been able to obtain published accounts ul 
 half of those deeds of the dark ? Have the reverend 
 adulterers, seducers, and ravishers been caught and 
 published in one case out of sixteen of that carefully 
 covered crime? If not, and the lecherous men of 
 God have committed but one offense each, tL i these 
 35,000 vicegerents of hearen have committed twenty 
 sexual sins per day during the last year ! Did each 
 repeat his crime ten times, then the female dupes of 
 the " Oily gaaimons " have 6u3ered froni their beastly 
 lusts to the amount of two hundred instances per day. 
 
IS 
 
 if 
 
 41 
 
 70 
 
 OBIMES OF PREAOHSRS. 
 
 Computing at the same ratio which statisticians v^e- 
 with other classes of cnrnmals, tlu.._e 35,000 messen- 
 gers of peace are guilty ol 73,000 .exnal crimes everv 
 Tear, two for each one of their number er ^ry .lay in- 
 eluding SunJaj. And wiiy not? Have they le.s 
 opporlnnitj than l^^borers, mechanics, lawyers, .^octors 
 nnnem, mr/ner., traders, merchants, sailors, or other 
 ha% s<.aB of rMi ? Stireiy not. Every opportunity 
 ^3 thrown n: their way. T^Tomen will admit perfect 
 atra^gers into .lieir houses, into their society, into their 
 cov,ndence,, if they but prefix the pompous title Rev- 
 erend to their namea Few care to even i ..nice a 
 Jaborer, sailor, farmer, mechanic, or miner. Yet while 
 computing the criminal statistics the compiler includes 
 as weJ ! the noble sons of toil as the priesthood. Who 
 does not know that if so much sexual crime is com- 
 mitted the smooth-tongued wolf in a lamb's pelt has 
 better opportunities than the busy man of useful life 
 even ,f nothing be allowed for the indolent lives' 
 highly-seasoned food, and depraved appetites of these 
 Iambs of God? 
 
 And now, after a year spent in waiting, hoping that 
 the previous publication might deter the elect of God 
 from such exhibitions of depravity, we come again to 
 the fore with a new list of 202 criminal preachers in 
 one year, taken, as before, from the northern half of 
 the United States and Canada. Four hundred a -d 
 forty-seven in five years was a fearful list, unr ^. 
 dented in the annals of crime ! That made ov -, ;. 
 to the year I Bu-^ ) .re comes 202 in one . . v^ ,qq 
 to the month! 4 h week! mor^ than '^- . av^rv 
 other day! Sundays included! Just thint: 000 
 
 i» « 
 
CRIMES OF PREACHERS. 
 
 71 
 
 educated men, well versed in our oivil and moral 
 code, claiming secular holiness, and demanding special 
 privileges because of their good works ; committing 
 gross aad horrid crimes every other day, even if not 
 one of them repeats his crime — does this so publicly 
 Uhut it is published in the papers. How much done 
 so darkly no one ever knows of it unless it be perhaps 
 a suffering victim. Do they, like the rest of crim- 
 inals, hide fifteen out of sixteen crimes? If so. these 
 35,000 holy men commit 10 crimes each day ! Has 
 the author yet failed to get more than half of the pub- 
 lished accounts ? then these " sky-pilots " commit over 
 20 crimes every day, including Sundays, even if each 
 commits but one crime in all his life ! But these 202 
 priests and preachers are charged with an aggregate of 
 500 crimes in the last year. Four crimes each three 
 days, so far as published I Did the author z'-q but half, 
 then they have been published as having committed 
 8 crimes every three days ! Did they hide 15 crimes 
 for every one published, then they have committed 
 128 crimes each three days ! Have the clergy in the 
 northern half of the United States committed 42 
 heinous crimes every day during the last year ? 
 
; . 
 
 CRIMES OF PREACHERS. 
 
 OOHICBNTS OF THK PBBSS, KTO. 
 
 The oompUatlon, aeemlngiy accurate enough, Is not one which a 
 healthy mind would care to spend Ume e^mlnlng. The number of 
 preachers Involved Is some «0, and the character of the trespass Is usu- 
 i^y Bexual. The black sheep are something too prevalont.-oajc<wo 
 
 IT is iBdeed a formidable array oi the crimes of preachers for the short 
 time of Ave years.— TVa^A Seeker, July 28, 1881. 
 
 Wb recommend a book compUed by M. E. Billings, of Waverly, Iowa, 
 givtagthe name, place, ohtiroh. and crime charged against/our hundred 
 Sfy'^lssT'" ^"**^"" *" ""^ **** *^* y®*™' - ^«"*<« (^<^«) democrat, 
 
 Kow what does Mr. Billings's lltUe book prove ? I answer just this : 
 That the reverend gentlemen In the United 3tate8 are the most criminal 
 fletof men m the country according to their numbers, and the least ex- 
 cuse for committtag crime of any class of people on earth.-J. D. Seelv in 
 Stynumr Timet, ffuly 80, 1881. 
 
 I havj: jast flnishetf reading the " Crimes of Preachers," by M, E. Bil- 
 lings, and must say I am astonished at, the magnitude of the sins wrought 
 
 o'h T/*^""*"- • • • B°ythl8boofc,mytriend8,and send ii; far 
 and wide.-J^/mino Drake Slenker in Truth Suker, July 20, 1881. 
 
 WAvicBi.ys "chaste" and "honest" attorney has done me the 
 honor(?)of sending me the result of his five yean,' scavengering. In 
 whlchheparadeswhat he calls the crimes of preachers. . . . What 
 are sensational newspaper " rumors " and " reports," anyway ^-Rev T, 
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 SiMULTANKouBLT With the stlT oauged by the Atwater case comes this 
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 Aeteotloa.— Worthington (Mnu ) Advance, Aug. 18, 1881. 
 
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 Bemember. It gives only those which became so notorious as to be 
 published In newspapers.— iVo»)co/t/<>r»ni«/ (Iowa), Nov, 3. 1881 
 
 THK religious press has become aware of this terrible record, and to 
 somewhat extenuate or break the force of the dama^g blow presenU 
 the plea that the pastor, In the discharge of bis duUes, Is thrown into the 
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 I HAVE beforeme a pamphlet of thlrtv-two tiR««u i.„\r v ».■,. 
 Wave^y. Iowa. c.tuu,a. "'crlmc. o;i?eure.^T;^,^J,^„„^„-^^^,^^^^^^ 
 
 rrri:rra^:;r ^^^ "^" ''^^ ^-"^ --.".xi« 
 
 COL. BILLINGS makes It lively for the " serrantB of God " Hia ,„,hii 
 
 ll8hed,and will contain two or three hundred additional mlnlHtfZ 
 crimes. Every Freethinker should order a copy. Ool. Bi«l8oneo^ 
 
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