Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-28
Kurd Preacher Who Spoke Here
Recently Thus Accused.
GEORGE NJ. DANIELS DENOUNCED
His Description TalIies With That Of
wen. M. George Daniel, Who Visited
\. ottumWa September Fl and Address
ed Audiences in Local Churches.

According to a statement recently
published in the Interior, the official
paper of the Presbyterian church.
George M. Daniel, purporting to be
soliciting funds for mission in kurdi-
stan, is pronounced imposter and
fraud. Whether this man is the same
as wen. M. George Daniel" who, with
companion, Rev. N. Abraham, WIS.,
tied Ottumwa recently and preached
in two or three of the churches here,is
not known, but in Burlington, where
Daniel talked, it is evidently thought
that the two Daniels are one and the
same. If Ven M. George" is an i'm
poster, he is a good one. He spoke in
Ottumwa at the First Christian church
on September 81, in the morning, in
the afternoon at the Y. w. G. A. de-
votional meeting, and in the evening
at the First Presbyterian church. His
companion, Rev. Abraham, spoke at
the First Congregational church in the
morning and at the Second Congrega-
tional church in the evening. They
claimed to represent the Thomas
Christian church of Turkey, in which
wen. NJ George" was, he said, an
arch-deacon. The Burlington story is
as follows, as published in this morn.
ing's Hawk-Eye:
The following clipping from the
Presbyterian church paper, The Inter
Tor, of October %, will be of interest
to Burlington readers:
The Board of Foreign Missions
requests The Interior to state on
its authority that George M. Dan
iels, HISTORIAN, who was last
byterian churches of Iowa and So
liciting funds for pretended mis-
sion in Kurdistan, is "a thorough
imposter and fraud" The secre-
taries will furnish proof of this
statement if it is questioned.
An orientally-garbed person passing
by the name of Geo. M. Daniels, ap
peared in Burlington about month
ago and was widely heralded in the
papers as an arch-deacon. He deliv
cred an address in one of the loca
churches and drew large audience by
the novelty of his apparel and the ma
ture of his mission. He was most
plausible in his talk and managed tt
gain the confidence of a number o.
church people.
His first step was to secure a pulpit
from which to make his address. He
went the rounds of the various church
rs in the city "sizing up" the congrega
lions. To the pastor of one large
church he went with the request fol
the use of his pulpit Sunday evening
The pastor said he could not give III
his pulpit, as he had need of it him
self.
The stranger grew eloquent in his
statement concerning the object TO
which he spoke and importuned thu
head of the church to loan him hi!
edifice for the meeting. The reverend
gentleman was obdurate, however, ant
then the stranger notified him that HI
was sure to secure a pulpit in one o
the churches and would by his costum,
and address draw most of the pastors
flock from him.
The pastor smiled kindly and init
mated that this was free countr,
and that it was the oriental's privileg,
to draw as large an audience as h.
could.
The Kurd eventually secured a pul
pit in which to deliver his lecture. H
was listened to by large and inter
ested audience. Those who attende,
the lecture will read The Interior
statement with interest.
II the Mr.. Daniels who lectured il
Burlington is the same one referred t.
by The Interior it is not believed h
made much off of the Burlington con
gregation.