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I have seen him tie up a lame young woman, and whip her with a heavy cowskin upon her naked shoulders, causing the warm red blood to drip; and, in justification of the bloody deed, he would quote this passage of Scripture—“He that knoweth his master’s will, and doeth it not, shall be beaten with many stripes.”

"To him that knoweth to do good and doeth it not, to him it is sin..."

There is also a rich religious tradition of anonymity in charitable giving, as in the New Testament Book of Matthew: “But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth, that thine alms may be in secret.”

And everyone that heareth these sayings of mine and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house....

His church produces a weekly televised broadcast and peddles books and CDs under self-help-y titles like “The Ministry of Cheerfulness” and “A Merry Heart Doeth Good Like Medicine.”