Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 285, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1917 — Preacher Converted After Visiting District Attorney [ARTICLE]

Preacher Converted After Visiting District Attorney

Some weeks ago the name of Rev. 1 Adolph Voight of a country chureh near Chicago was being noised about Hn . a decidedly uncomplimentary manner because of disloyal words and actions on his part, and he was summoned before District Attorney Clyne of Chicago,where he appeared, it was stated, with a Bible in one hand. What Mr. Clyne said to him has not yet been published, but it must have been pretty warm stuff; leastwise it was further stated that when the minhfpr left the federal attorney’s office t»he still had his Bible in one h - .bit c.-K'r’ed in th* other a L> • -t which and the !lv, he had bee and he was under ; ,_r. Clyne to preach a sermon .0 his congregation the next Sunday on “America First.” He “made good” on the conversion he had experienced and his promises to the federal official, and the last chapter to date was published in Tuesday’s Chicage Herald, as follows: “The Americanism displayed by Rev. Adolph Voigt of the Hoosier Grove Evangelical Lutheran church since he was called before District Attorney Clyne for alleged pro-Ger-„ manism ha's caused the official to decide to give him new districts to convert to patriotism. “The pastor’s flock in Hanover township failed to subscribe to the Liberty Loan, the Red Cross or the Y. M. C. A. The clergyman—unwittingly, he says—spread some proGerman stories, and he was Called into the district attorney’s office two weeks ago and requested to J‘go over the top.” “He xvent, after preparing the congregation with a sermon on “America First.” Yesterday he went to the federal building to report his gains to Mr. Clyne. Here they are: “Ten thousand dollars subscribed to the Liberty Loan; $354 for the Y. M. C. A. and S7O for the Red fross. “Mrs. Voigt accompanied her husband, and told Mr. Clyne of the activities of the Red Cross branch she is organizing.”