Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1901 — A New Religion Needed. [ARTICLE]

A New Religion Needed.

Just at this time the country needs a new religion that will make a mau pay his debts, says the Methodist Advocate. Shouting don’t settle old accounts with God or man. We bounce right into a fellow and put him out of church if he goes to a ball or theatre, but never say a word to a pious scamp who never pays his debts. People who do not pay their debts are doing the church more harm than dancers or drunkards, for there are more of them in church. Reader are we getting close to you? Then lay down your paper and go and pay up and read on with ease. And don’t you stop paying because the “statute of limitation” excuses the open account which you made for meat and bread You must pay it in fire and brimstone. God knows no such excuse for not paying as “homestead exemption.” When you raise that excuse to keep from paying your debts you can stop singing “When I can read my Title Clear to Mansions in the Skies.” You’ve none up there.