The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-01

From there he went to Westerly. r. l.,
and thence to Hartford. where he married
who % once sef lived We In In Indiana indanspoiis. III T Then he
took charge Of the Marcy-street Baptist
Church in Brooklyn at a salary OF $4,000
Soon Mr.. Pentecost shifted to Congrega-
uonalism, and took charges of the Congre-
gatonal Church on Thirty-fourth street,
this city. This was about ten years a9D.
ABOUT 1885 he became pastsr of the Belle
ville-avenue Conversational Church in New
Then it was that the Henry George idea
fastened strong upon him.. and he got into
trouble with his church. which ended in his
resignation He also abandoned the min
istry and leaped from Christianity TO athe-
ism. He the most enthusiastic of the
Henry George men, He gave Sunday night
lectures in Masonic Temple. in which he
tore social conditions up the back. There
was never a man more anxious to reform
things than Mr.. Pentecost. He established
the Twentieth Century about this time and
became its editor.
After awhile Mr.. Pentecost changed. He
grew grew Henry George % He decided @ V that at being
q martyr doesn't pay. He determined to
become lawyer and make money and see
would also enter politics to work off his
surplus energy and keep his restless mind
James Edward Graybill, of No. 229 Broad
and moved to No; 80 Fast Fiftieth street; street.:
first learned that Mr.. Pentecost was
lawyer when he appeared as counsel for
Slaughter. ter. 1t It was was Mrs. clf Chase Who who per per-
formed the criminal operation on Maggie
ManZoni. During the past year Mr.. Pentc-
sions.
SOME RADICAL SENTIMENTS.
Mr.. Pentecost has uttered some very
radical sentiments. In speech at a
Bastile celebration at Phoenix Park he
said:
"If you ask me what we all want, reply
more If your neighbor has more than
dissatisfied until they. get more, too. So
long as there Is millionaire you ought to
be dissatisfied. want to infiame your dis
or somehow. There Is enough money in
this country TO give every man 5000 a
revolution. but I nope there win be a revo-
bloody ONE
An address given at the Belleville-avenue
Rink, in Newark, on Aug. Is, 1889, is par
ticularly interesting at this time. 1t is
plainly evident that Mr.. Pentecost did not
at that time, anticipate that he would be
bright and shining light in Tammany
Hall and place-holder as well. Read:
IT you will understand that I have no
political bias whatever-I am neither Re-
publican nor a. Democrat; never expect
to vote either ticket again-I may say that,
perhaps, our present President is in some
respects little worse than the rule, be-
cause his moral shame is 'sickled DER
with conventional ptety. l have always adj
his name in the Jail blotter, he said in an
sWer to the question, What is your re-
ligion? L have none And 1 have always
had similar admiration for Jay Gould,
because ne makes no religious pretensions."
After contemplating Mr. Pentecost as a
eea nere of ehe gfneral sn ami "a sim in
lever in the principles Of Tammany Hail."
look upon this:
Politicians are bad and dangerous peo-
cOnScloncpS
will sell their souls to gain point. No
body knows this better than they them
deceive and betray you. Nor believe that
anything can ever really be gained by pol
tiles. Have nothing to do with politics.
Believe the truth, speak the truth, obev
free
Mr.. Pentecosts piety, after he renounced
tons fro a lecture at Chickering Hall on
May 80, 1880, upon "a Useless God" Here
The longer God lives the more useless
he becomes. once upon time God could
take nothing and make a world out of it.
not to blaspheme God, but to call your sat-
tention to the fact that the leading clergy
men men of the day are teaching you to wor-
The editorials in the earlier numbers of
the Twentieth Century. which Mr.. Pente-
cost established, did not have his initials
under them There are several of these
editorials which show how admirably fitted
Mr.; Pentecost must be to fill the Office OF
one knows. 1T is the duty OF such an officer
to prosecute crime and to carry out the
laws laws Of the State This is from the Twen-
tieth Century of Oct. 3, 1889:
DO you call a person a murderer who,
like McIlvaine, killed man who was at
tacking him? Such murderer would not
punish, l would leave him to public opin-
ion and his own conscience. Monsters like
Jesse Pomeroy should be locked up, not for
punishment, but because it is unsafe for
them to be abroad. They are moral luna
tics; they are dangerous, as mad dogs are
But the managers of railroads in this coun-
all the other kind of murderers put to-
gether. Why not lock them UP. too. for the
public safety?'
In the same newspaper, dated Jan. Z, 1892,
Mr.. Pentecost, over his own initials, wrote:
Capital punishment is a relic of bar
sons know that its only influence on So
ciety is to brutaliZe the people. 1t does not
prevent murder. 1t does not cure murder.
1t does nothing but crafty the blood
thirsty feelings cf some and outrage the
humane sentiments of others"
Mr.. Law, in the kindness of his heart
prays that l may be brought back to the
religion that l have abandoned. That kind
ly prayer will never be answered until re-
lgious people entirely quit the killing busi-
ness either in battle, on galloWSeS, in cleo
trical chairs. or in shops and factories by
slow starvation. 1t is useless for anyone
to preach Christ to me who does not cry
aloud against prisons and death chairs"
NEWSPAPER COMMENTS.
The Tribune says, editorially: MIR. Pente-
cost is a man of diversified talents, which
he has eagerly invited the public to inspect
at its earliest and most frequent con-
venience, and not one Of them nor all of
them together, can reasonably te expected
to prove useful in the place TO which it has
pleased Mr.. Croker, and, consequently, Col
Fellows to cali him. He has been success
sively a regular clergyman, an extremely
irregular revivalist, sensational talker on
subjects Of which he knew just enough to
reveal his ignorance, a Tammany convert
and a lawyer with a few bad clients and
still fewer good causes. II this were all il
those qualities which a public prosecutor
ought to possess. But it isn't all. Mr.. PEN
tecost has made the lower steps of his de-
Scending scale conspicuous chiefly by pro-
claiming himself prophet OF rank social
ism. To all appearance he has coveted dis
tinction reckless professional agftator
hankering for the applause OF Improbable
and unsavory elements of the community
and willing for that reward TO deIude them
with fantastic theories and excite them TO
turbulence with infiammatory rhetoric"
Taa World says, editorially: "Pentecost is
abo: as little fitted to be a prose
cutor of criminals as any man author
lied to practice law In the city. He
was formerly sensational preacher, and
more recently an Anarchist agitator.
He was admitted to the bar but
two years ago, and then said: i shall never
become prosecutor, but shall devote my
chief energies to work in the line of de-
fense, and that principally in criminal cases
Defending a man against the action of the
law would be thoroughly in accordance with
his senses-Croker or Fellows?
"Has Mr. Fellows thought OF the availa