Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-14
MOVES TENT At
COURTS ORDER
PASADENA RELIGIOUS LEADER
FACES HEAVY FINE
Healer Post Quotes Holy Writ in
Court as His EXCUSE for
Disobeying the
Law
Pasadena Agency.
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Telephone Main ToZ.

PASADENA, July 13-Ansel II, Post
head of the peculiar religious sec'
known as the Household of God, was
fined $50 in the city police court this
forenoon for disturbing the peace.
He was allowed to depart on his own
recoGnizance it being understood that
if he should obey the counciFs orders
and move the tent now occupied by his
congregation on North Fair Oaks ave-
nue. the fine and it's alternative of fifty
days in the county jail might be sus-
pended.
of the trial the tent was down and
neatly packed for removal to some oth-
er neighborhood, a fact which indl-
Gates that the orders of the court are
to be obeyed.
The hearing this forenoon in the po-
lice court was somewhat pathetic in
spite of the fact that the proof was
abundant to the effect that the House
hold has become a nuisance in its pres
ent location.
Post brought his Bible into the court
and defended his shoutings and his loud
prayers by reading and quoting from
memory numerous passages from the
Holy Writ.
Followers Testify
Two or three of his followers testi-
and of Posts various gifts of tongues
and of healing.
One of his followers, Mrs. Margaret
Aleathen, alternately prayed and
sobbed over the plight their leader was
in and told of the noises made by peo-
pie outside the tent.
City Attorney Wood, in summing up
the case against Post, referred to him
as this man is one who shouts aloud
and spares not. Pasadena is not a
place where any man is prohibited from
worshipping God as he pleases. but the
laws of the city must be enforced. Post
is now dumb. The lamb is dumb be-
fore his shearers.
II tell you frankly that l have more
sympathy for these two followers than
for this man himself. He openly de-
fies the law and makes of his so-called
religion a nuisance to his neighbors.
In his fanaticism he has gone beyond
all bounds" o
Post claimed that he received the gift
of tongues at the AZusa Street mission
in Los Angeles three weeks go today
and that since that time he has no con-
troll of himself when the gift comes
down. He was willing to suffer martyr
dom but he would not move the tent.
He was given until tomorrow evening
to move the tent, failing in which he
pays his fine or goes to Jail.
In Vacant Store
Late this afternoon after the tearing
down of the tent a sign was posted
at the grounds saying that tonights
meeting of the Household is 10 be given
in the vacant storeroom at "a Delacy
street.
1t was in this room that the House
hold continued the interrupted meeting
on the evening of July Fourth to the
annoyance of the whole neighborhood.
There are many rooming houses in
the vicinity and it is not at all likely
that the occupants will rest long with
out complaining of their new neighbors,
say the police.
The orders of the council calling off
the night meetings of the Household at
10 O'Clock do not apply to the new
quarters, and unless the action of the
police court today has given a suffi-
cient lesson to the organization the
same objections are likely to be made
against them and at once.
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