Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1893 — The Dseserving Diinkers. [ARTICLE]

The Dseserving Diinkers.

The Dunkers have been holding a series of tent meetings near Milford. The Mail pays a (It serving compli ment to these people in the following: The Dunkers are a class of people for whom outsiders and even unbelievers have a very great respect because they live up to their professions. Honesty, frugality, industry, simplicity and brotherly love ate the characteristics of these devoted people. Last but not least, when a Dunker contracts a debt he expects to pay it, and it he doesn’t pay it his church purposes to know why. If all other denominations would be as careful to inculcate old-fashioned every-day honesty, they would stand better with the masses. One dishon- st, church member keeps out scons of well-disposed outsiders who would come in if their sense of decency was not outraged by seeing some dea l-beat get up and exhort or even offer a prayer. It is this careful'ness to show their faith by their works and live a clean, upright, consistent life that has made the Dunkers so justly celebrated for sincerity until it has become a proverb among business men that ‘’Danker accounts are worth 100 cents on the dollar.”