They eat and drink of the choicest products of the earth; they visit only the homes of the wealthy, where they are sumptuously entertained; they do not try to keep the body in subjection to the spirit by any kind of restraint or mortification, and so their carnal passion becomes the master of their being, and they fall away from grace, [ 11 ] shocking the community and scandalizing the church of God.
— from Crimes of Preachers in the United States and Canada by M. E. Billings