Crimes of Preachers in the United States and CanadaBillings, M. E.
Religion
Crimes of Preachers in the United States and Canada
Billings, M. E.
Clergy -- Malpractice -- Canada; Clergy -- Malpractice -- United States; Criminals -- Canada; Criminals -- United States
The Rev. R. G. Malone, superintendent of the Grand Traverse
district, arrested for licentious conduct; fled the state; now
in employ of Minnesota League.
The Rev. George Kulp, League orator, Grand Rapids, arrested
for adultery.
The Rev. Ralph Baldwin, League in Saginaw, fled after being
exposed in a liaison with a Detroit woman.
The Rev. John M. Wright, an organizer and orator for the League
from Muskegon, proven guilty of perjury in a divorce case.
The Rev. Orson D. Taylor, a Saginaw League organizer and orator,
sent to House of Correction for thefts.
The Rev. E. I. Waldorf, another Saginaw League worker, sent to
House of Correction for thefts.
The Rev. C. E. Lee, a prominent League worker and orator in Grand
Rapids, expelled from his church for licentiousness.
The Rev. J. Printer, a Branch county League organizer, fled the
state to escape arrest for bigamy.
The Rev. Charles Kirchner, St. Clair county League organizer and
orator, betrayed his foster daughter.
The Rev. Jos. St. Johns, Pontiac member of the League's force of
workers, serving a term for assaulting a colored girl.
The Rev. J. R. Andrews, a Lansing League orator, expelled from
church and arrested for blackmail.
The Rev. S. A. Northrop, one of the League's most gifted orators
at Owosso, expelled from his church for undue intimacy with women
of the congregation.
The Rev. John Smith, a Grand Rapids League orator and ardent
supporter, eloped with one of the women of his church.
The Rev. Dr. J. G. Holiday, Manistee county organizer, expelled
from his church for swindling.
The Rev. William P. Squires, Bay City organizer and orator for
the League, expelled from his church for falsehood and swindling.
The Rev. A. C. Marshall, from Amboy, Hillsdale county,
League worker and orator at Corunna, expelled from church for
licentiousness.
There have been a number of clerical reformers in the East whose
records cannot be cited to their advantage. One went against the
Sabbath breakers in Brooklyn, was arrested for blackmail and forfeited
his bond. One in West Virginia fought the theaters and Sunday trains,
but he turned out a gallows bird, a bigamist, and the thief of his
children's inheritance. One went to combat license in Brattleboro,
Vermont, but turned up too drunk to go on with the lecture. One in New
Jersey railed against Sunday liberty, but beat his wife and eloped with
a choir singer. One of Boston stood in the pulpit with the blood of a
girl seduced and murdered on his hands and demanded legal suppression
of Sunday baseball. The "phrasing of morality," thus becoming a habit
with the clergy, does not conflict with their other vices.
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