Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 175, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1918 — THEY’RE ONLY ONE OF MANY OFFENDERS [ARTICLE]

THEY’RE ONLY ONE OF MANY OFFENDERS

Monon News. Several years ago we attended a Sunday service at the Battle Ground tabernacle at which it was. decided to do away with Sunday gate fees and in order to do«this, a collection was taken and a sum subscribed with the distinct understanding that hereafter people would not have to pay to hear the Gospel preached. The proposition was commendable and the congregation responded liberally, a large sum being raised. To lighten the burden on subscribers, they were allowed to pay on the installment plan. A brother from Monon, who has since met with financial reverse, gave $25 and many subscriptions for larger sums were received. Accordingly the gate fee was eliminated; — not permanently—only for a brief spell. Battle Ground Camp Meeting Association is a private corporation and if it kept faith with those who subscribed on that occasion, they would get their money back. We are not advised as to this,’ but we do know that the association asks wide publicity of the press without compensation beyond a vote of thanks, which does not even pass one in at the gate.