Just about everything found its way into the newspapers of the past, including little odd bits of church news. The following holy snippets were published in 1912.
Rockefeller’s Church
First Presbyterian Church, Greenwich, Conn., which is the road to heaven favored by the Rockefeller’s, Benedict’s, and other millionaires, has dispensed with the choir in order to save money.
In the Hospital
Rev. R.R.L. Kirkland, First Congregational Church, Tampa, Florida, is in the hospital recovering from an argument with the fashionable women of his congregation.
Quite a Collection
Police found 177 prayer books, 29 holy pictures, 29 casts of saints and 500 rosaries, said to have been stolen from Roman Catholic cathedrals, in rooms of Mrs. Annie Cooper, Philadelphia.
Church Hitch
Rev. Frank C. Bruner, Ogden Park Methodist Church, says Andrew Carnegie, John D., and Pierp. are Judases because they have “hitched themselves to various churches.”
Lunacy
Rev. D. F. Shields, preacher, Kalamazoo, Michigan, preached to imaginary crowd on street while thermometer stood at 8 below. Lunacy commission.
Cannibal Islands
Many an unfortunate missionary of the cannibal islands has found to his regret that he was “just to the queen’s taste.”
Moonshine Still
Rev. Joseph R. Smith, Sewanee, Tennessee, in jail trying to explain moonshine still attached to parsonage.
