The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1918-03-30


rights of this plaintiff as expressed in said books
as defendant s own original thoughts and palm
ing them off in harangues to his audiences III a
vulgar and suggestive manner and on credu-
lous and unthinking public through the AID OF
the press and the rostrum as has own Ills me-
thOd being to use the thoughts, Ideas and Ian
guage Of the plaintiff as contained IN each and
all Of said books but IN an indecent, vulgar
and suggestive and obscene way through the
press and the rostrum where he speaks, - his
method being to send an advance agent to
large and wealthy city and excite the curiosity
of the religiously and otherwise inclined people
to hear him preach. That he pays leading
newspaper large sums Of money to thus adver
tise him and the other papers in such city are
thereby compelled to advertise without com
pensation from said Sunday his advent and so
called sermons as matter OF news which the de-
PENDANT gets the benefit of without cost to him.
Defendant then gets the people OF the city OF
his prospective field of operations to build
large auditorium carefully constructed as to
acoustics, sounding boards and saw dust piled
thick upon the earth which forms the floor,
in circus the seats Of long, plain pine
boards, stationary all constructed to produce
the maximum of sound from the rostrum I'M
INSTRUCTED by noise Of moving masses Of people
within said structure which is denomnated
tabernacle.
While said building is being constructed de-
PENDANTS advance agents are organizing choir
to sing in said building at intervals during the
so called revival or religious awakening.
That said so called religious awakening or
trail hitting is produced by defendant by an
appeal to the emotions and in stirring up the
senses by combination of carrying the United
States FLAG in one hand and the Bible in the
other, singing, trumpeting, organ playing,
garrulous and acrobatic feats Of defendant by
defendant in his talk leaping from the rostrum
to the top of the pulpit, lying prone on the floor
Of the rOstrum on his stomach in presence OF the
vast audience and from thence into pit to
shake hands with the so called trail hltters
and the vulgar use Of plaintiff thoughts con-
tanned in said books. Said harangues and vul-
.garisms of said defendant and horns, drums,
organs and singing by said choir and vast
audience which are assembled by means OF said
newspaper advertisements for the purpose Of
inducing a habit Of free and copius flow OF
money through religious and patriotic excite
ment produced by and through the vulgarisms,
scurrility buffoonery, obscenity and profanity
of defendant pretending to be in the interest OF
the cause of religion through what he denomi-
mates hitting the trail - the real object being
to induce religious frenzy and enthusiasm
which he announces in advance is to result in
large audiences composed Of thousands of people
generously contributing vast sums OF money on
the last day and night Of the called revival
which is invariably appropriated by the defend
ant and through which scheme and device de-
PENDANT has become enormously wealthy.
That said scheme and device is carried out
and made effective by defendant by his falsely
and fraudulently appropriating the thoughts
and ideas contained in said copyright books of
plaintiff hereinafter more specifically set forth
by his using said thoughts and ideas of plaintiff
repreSentino the life work Of plaintiff as his -
the defendants own original thoughts and
ideas, and in such vulgar, obscene, indecent
and suggestive way to appeal to the lowest
and most debased in human nature and IN such
way as to be harmful to boys, girls and people
of weak mental tendencies and also to the dig
nifty and purity of thought contained in said
books, = thereby greatly lessening their value
as guide to a better and purer life of human
beings, and through which scheme and device
defendant has made monetary gains and profits
to the manifest injury OF plaintiff.
T. That the first edition Of the said book
E'The Truth About The Bible" contains the
definition of sin, set out IN the original com
plant herein, and, as further defined IN this
amended complaint. That there have been three
editions of the said 'The Truth About the
Bible issued and published, to date. That the
second and third editions Of said book have de-
veoped the original idea, as defined in the first
edition, and enlarged upon it, That the same
idea is the subject matter Of the book, 1.-The
Sociology Of The Bible That there have been
two editions of this book issued and published,
to date, and that the second edition is a more
extensive treatise of the idea as contained in
the first edition. That there have been two edi-
tionS of the book, ''What Every Man and Wom-
an Should Know About the Bible, issued and
published, to date. That the first edition is
III i e. A.