Week
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contributor: Blakemore, William
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1917-11-10
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note: The Week H British eelumbia Newspaper aad Review Vol. XV, No. 30—15th Year Victoria, B.C., Canada, November 10th, 1917 5c a copy $2.00 a year , Tabernacle Smoke Clouds THE committee in charge of tlio tabernacle finances hns issued a stnteinont to the public. It cannot he cnllod a frank statement without doing violence to frankness, nor can it be called a truthful statement without a needless disrespect for truth. Perhaps justice will he met if wo remark that the statement shrewdly observes the distinction between "legal" nnd "moral" truth. Between the various forms of truth there is a great gulf fixed. The committee clings to that truth which is one outwardly and the veracity which is one outwardly in the flesh, nnd spurns the truth which is inward and tho veracity which is of the heart. Complaint is made thnt "misstatements" and "misrepresentations" concerning Oliver and his services arc being "persistently" circulated. Shrewdly enough the committee omits to inform us what these "misstatements" and "misrepresentations" are. But inasmuch ns righteous indignation is displayed at the very idea flint Dr. Oliver's name should he associated with "financinl guarantees," The Week will assume that the "misstatements" and "misrepresentations" have reference to ''financial guarantees." We are informed that "Dr. Oliver came without financinl guarantee and that be has neither asked for nor received any since ho enme." How carefully that statement skims round the circumference of the circle of truth! Yet how perilously near it ventures to the danger zone! But in order that Victorians may not ho altogether deceived by the committee's dexterous pussyfooting, wo • propose to publish the facts as we know them. It will then he seen tbnt Dr. Oliver is not quite so oblivious to the financial and business sido of life ns represented nnd thnt there i.s substantia] rensou for the widely prevnlcnt impression that he is a "commercial revivalist." The first witness we shnll cull is the Rev. …
note: Publisher changes in chronological order: publisher not identified (1904-1906) ; The Week Publishing Co., Ltd. Offices (1906-1907) ; �The Week� Publishing Company, Limited (1907-1918) ; publisher not identified (1918-1920)
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Victoria (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0374080
language: English
lat: 48.428333
long: -123.364722
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Victoria : "The Week" Publishing Company, Limited
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text