Circumscribed Fame by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 15, 1883

Circumscribed Fame.

By Editor

THIS from the Christian at Work:—

"Charles Sorber, who made himself famous during the Miller excitement by giving away all his property and sitting on the roof of his house in Camden, dressed in a white gown, waiting to go to Heaven in a golden chariot, died last Sunday in Brooklyn."

This man may have been famous, and for the object specified, but his fame had not reached so far west as California. None of the Cyclopedias contain his name, and it is not found in Webster's "Biographical Dictionary," or the "Noted Names of Fiction." We have been trying for years to find the man who sat on the house-top clothed with an ascension robe, but he was always in the next State, or farther. Nobody had ever exactly seen him. Now if there is any body who saw Charles Sorber do this thing, and can give us all the particulars, we shall esteem it a personal favor; and we think we know men of means who will make it pecuniarily profitable for the giver of such information. We are strongly inclined to believe that he (or at least his marvelous exploit) originated in the editorial sanctum of the Christian at Work.