speaking of 傑出, 其實, 除咗本tread 提及之外, 貴教牧師亦都有其他傑出行為, 居功至偉。(可惜紀錄只到1914秋季, 如果有同仁能夠update一下,不勝感激,銘感五中)
事件起因: In the year 1906 the Young Men’s Christian Association of Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania, rejected the application of an actor for membership on the ground that one of his profession could not be a moral person. Viewing the action as a slur cast on the whole theatrical profession, Mr. Henry E. Dixey, the well-known actor, offered to give one thousand dollars to charity if it could be shown that actors, man for man, were not as good as ministers of the gospel. No champion of the cloth appearing to claim Mr. Dixey’s money on that proposition, he went further and offered another thousand dollars if there could not be found a minister in jail for every state in the Union. This second challenge was likewise ignored by the clergy and the association which had provoked it, but Mr. Dixey made a few inquiries as to the proportion of ministers to actors among convicts. His research, which was far short of being thorough, discovered 43 ministers and 19 actors in jail. The investigation, so far as the ministers were concerned, could have touched only the fringe of the matter, for in eight months of the year 1914 the publishers of this work counted more than seventy reported offenses of preachers for which they were or deserved to be imprisoned, and of course the count included only those cases reported in newspapers that reached the office through an agency which scans only the more important ones. There had been nothing like a systematic reading of the press of the country for these cases. Judged by 1914, the clerical convicts in 1906 must have far exceeded the number developed by Mr. Dixey’s census.
“In England, from October, 1891, to October, 1892, 12 ministers committed suicide, 14 broke the marriage promise, 17 committed various crimes, 18 misused animals, 109 violated women, 121 were indicted for drunkenness (habitual), 254 cheated their creditors, and 18 committed minor offenses. That is 2.75 per cent. of the English ministry, says the ‘Pall Mall Gazette,’ who were in one year in trouble with the law.”Since the revision of this work was undertaken, late in the fall of 1914, the clergy have not ceased to furnish fresh material for its pages, but as each additional name must cause a revision of totals, the later cases, which perhaps number two dozen, must await the next round-up. The following table condenses the crimes, offenses, etc., with which the ministers have been charged:
Abduction.........................................22
Abortion and attempts to procure........19
Abusive language.............................. 22
Adultery............................................676
Alienation of affections.......................17
Arson...............................................62
Assault with intent to murder.............. 61
Assault with intent to rape...................50
Assault with intent to do great harm.....26
Assault and battery........................... 66
Attempted suicide............................. 15
Bastardy...........................................77
Bigamy, attempted and accomplished..144
Breach of promise to marry.................27
Burglary........................................ 17
Cheating, swindling, grafting, malversation, misappropriation, etc........288
“Conduct unbecoming a minister of the gospel”...................................44
Conspiracy................................................................................11
Contempt of court...............13
Counterfeiting.....................16
Cruelty to wife or children......130
Debauchery..........................52
Desertion or non-support of wife or children...............207
Disorderly conduct..................................................44
Divorced or sued.....................................................56
Drunkenness...........................................................202
Elopement, attempted or accomplished......................163
Embezzlement, fraud, defalcation, etc.........................162
Enticing women and young girls.................................15
False impersonation..................................................13
Fighting...................................................................51
Forgery...................................................................123
“Fornication”............................................................14
Gambling.................................................................19
Grave robbery..........................................................1
Gross immorality......................................................40
Horse stealing..........................................................19
Illicit distilling.............................................................12
Illicit liquor selling......................................................15
Immoralities with women and girls, miscellaneous and variously described...........223
Larceny.................181
Libel......................50
Lying and deceit..................138
Malicious destruction of property and malicious mischief..............22
Manslaughter.........................................................................14
Murder generally....................................................................119
Murder of child.....................................................................12
Murder of wife...................................................................27
Obscene language.............................................................16
Obscene print, circulation of..............................................14
Obtaining money or property under false pretenses...............65
Perjury or subornation of...................................................12
Plagiarism or literary piracy.................................................14
Praying for death of neighbor, who died................................1
Profanity.........................................................................11
Quarreling.......................................................................19
Rape in general.................................................................43
Rape of girls under age of consent or puberty.......................76
Seduction in general.......................................................273
Seduction of girls under fifteen........................................28
Slander.........................................................................109
Sodomy or unnatural crime..........................................67
Stealing religious funds or property..............................23
Suicide......................................................................117
Threatening life.....................................................16
Violation of postal laws..........................................17
White slavery and pandering.................................15
Wife or woman beating............................................57
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不過, 為死咗嘅鄰居代禱都有罪, 就真係有啲頭痕, think soberly, 會唔會因為未經家屬授權呢?
同埋企圖自殺罪, 令哈佛有點困惑 |
