19th Century Christian Commie
“The kind of zeal to please God in some other way than by the sacrifice of a contrite heart, and free communion with the spirit of the Most High, has characterized all ages, and down to the present time we find men who have come in possession of great fortunes by stelth and advantage, by which thousands have been impoverished, giving munificent gifts to charitable institutions in the hope of winning favor with God and gaining the praise of religious people and whose funeral orations team with glowing accounts of their goodness in life.”
— M.V. Ingram, Authenticated History of the Bell Witch and Other Stories of the World’s Greatest Unexplained Phenomenon [1894]
Image Credit: Walter Clark [1848 - 1917], Clouds on a Blue Sky (by way of Smithsonian)