Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1885 — Wants His Church Subscription Back. [ARTICLE]

Wants His Church Subscription Back.

At a recent meeting of the Universalist parish in Augusta, Me., a big gun of the church made so singular a request that the newspapers shrink from printing his name. He stated that he had become poor, and he asked the society to refund to him the sum of $2,000, which he subscribed toward the erection and maintenance of the church building some twenty years ago. He has not yet got the money, and it will be strange if he does. Though the petitioner's name is not given, he is so particularly described that anybody who has a file of blue books can hunt him down. He is said to have held lucrative Federal offioes almost continuously for twenty years or more. For years he was Minister to one of the European courts at a salary of $7,500 a year. Then he was Minister to a South American republic at asalary of SIO,OJO a year. If this is not a warning against office-holding, what is it? Not a warning against charitable living, surely, for if the s>,ooo bad not been given, it would undoubtedly have been squandered as the donor’s other income was. —Exchange.