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N O W
Asks $50,000 Damage
For Tombstone Libel
One-armed Harry A. Wilkinson is
suing the Wenz Co., Inc., of Allentown,
Pa., for $50,000 because a tombstone si-
lently accuses him of a crime of which
he has been cleared.
Five years ago, says Newsweek, Aquila
A. Henning was shot and killed while
hunting with a group that included Harry
Wilkinson. Wilkinson was cleared after
his brother Robert admitted shooting
Henning during a quarrel. Tried for mur-
der, Robert won acquittal on testimony
that he shot to protect his brother.
Soon after Henning's death, his widow
ordered a $1,900 monument and set it
over his grave. It showed a one-armed
man pointing a pistol at a retreating hunt-
er. From sculptured foliage peeped seven
heads, representing the witnesses at the
murder trial. At the base was inscribed:
"An innocent soul sent to eternity."
Harry Wilkinson refrained from suing
Mrs. Henning presumably because she
was too poor to pay a damage judgment.
But this year the monument makers, pre-
sumably unable to collect for the stone,
made it into a billboard by adding to the
inscription: "We design and cut impres-
sive memorials. Wenz Co., Inc., Allen-
town, Pa." Wilkinson thereupon filed
suit for $50,000.
Every individual in the world is either
accused or cleared of crirge by, not a
tombstone, but an empty tomb. As the
Lord Jesus Christ entered on His public
ministry, His forerunner John the Baptist
cried: "Behold the Lamb of God, which
taketh away the sin of the world." Scrip-
ture declares: "There is none righteous,
no, not one." It also asserts: "Christ died
for the unGodly" and "All we like sheep
have gone astray; we have turned every-
one to his own way; and the Lord hath
laid on Him the iniquity of us all" (Isaiah
53:6). Therefore, when He suffered, bled
and died on the cross and was laid in the
new tomb of Joseph of Arimathea it was
for the sins of us all. So that tomb ac-
cuses all of sin.But the third day He rose from the
dead, and Joseph's tomb was left empty.
That He did rise in the same nail-pierced,
spear-wounded body on which He bore
the weight of all our sins, is a fact that
is established beyond all sensible doubt.
Scripture declares that Abraham believed
God and it was counted to him for right-
eousness, then adds: "Now it was not
written for his sake alone, that it [right-
eousness by faith] was imputed to him;
but for us also, to whom it shall be im-
puted, if we believe on Him that raised
up Jesus our Lord from the dead; Who
was delivered for our offenses, and was
raised again for our justification" (Rom-
ans 4:23-25).
Therefore, that empty tomb clears
(justifies) everyone who believes on the
Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour.
But it also warns the unjustified sinner
that God "hath appointed a day, in the
which He will judge the world in right-
eousness by that Man Whom He hath
ordained; whereof He hath given assur-
ance unto all men, in that He hath raised
Him from the dead" (Acts 17:31).
$2 Robber Given
24-Minute Term
Looking up from the scratch pad on
which he had been figuring. Justice of the
Peace Louis L. Hicks of St. Louis, says
Newsweek, observed: "Richard Whitney
got five years for stealing about $225,000.
That would be $45,000 a year, $120 a
day, $5 an hour." He addressed George
Jamerson, convicted of robbing a filling
station: "You stole $2. That would be 24
minutes. And that is your sentence.
Disgruntled Justice Hicks evidently
thought the Wall Street leader had
drawn too light a sentence for his crime.
Yet had he himself had opportunity to
attempt adjusting the broker's sentence
to that of the service station robber on a
mathematical basis he would have found
he had a hard task on his hands. If he
thought George Jamerson rightly should
serve a month for stealing $2, Richard
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