Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1908 — CHURCH MEMBERS PAY DEBTS [ARTICLE]

CHURCH MEMBERS PAY DEBTS

Revival Service at Elwood Results in Conscience Money Payments. Elwood, Ind., Nov. 24.—The Rev. James C. Derk, of Allentown, Pa., who has been conducting a revival at the M. P. church, has created more interest in church affairs than any minister who has ever appeared here in revival work. In a stirring sermon Sunday evening he told his hearers that it was sacrilegious for a man to stand up and confess Christ while he still owed debts which he had made no attempt to pay. His words bore fruit. Eli Shores appeared at the Lake Erie station and handed the ticket agent a quarter, remarking that it was conscience money. He explained that in September, 1898, he had ridden from Elwood to Alexandria and the train being crowded he eluded the conductor and escaped

paying fare. He said that he- could not pray without that quarter appearing before him and he wanted to pay and forget It. . Later another member of the congregation appeared at the Western Union Telegraph Company and paid >1.65 which he said he owed for telegraph service received seveu

years ago. Another went to a local grocer and paid a grocery bill of which had been standing ten years. A focrth person paid 37 to D. E. Green for rent which had long since been forgot.