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M. E. Billings
Known mainly for a rare and provocative nonfiction work, this author compiled reports of clerical wrongdoing in the United States and Canada in a book that still feels strikingly direct. Very little biographical information survives, which adds an air of mystery to the name behind it.
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Crimes of Preachers in the United States and Canada
by M. E. Billings
About the author
M. E. Billings is credited as the author of Crimes of Preachers in the United States and Canada, a book published in 1882 and now preserved by projects such as Project Gutenberg and The Online Books Page.
The work gathers reported cases involving ministers and argues against the idea that religious office guarantees moral behavior. Its tone is forceful and investigative, making it stand out as a sharp example of 19th-century polemical nonfiction.
Beyond that publication, reliable biographical details about Billings are hard to confirm from the sources available here. Even so, the surviving book suggests a writer deeply interested in public accountability, controversy, and the gap between reputation and conduct.