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Money & Religion. His interest in the Bible, however, actually got Manning into politics. As a farm boy of 17, he heard a broadcast sermon by William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart, a Calgary evangelist with a persuasive social message. Bible Bill later became premier of Alberta as head of a Social Credit party that promised to pay a $25 monthly dividend to every citizen. Manning had joined Aberhart's Prophetic Bible Institute as a student and helped his chief sell Alberta on the fuzzy Social Credit theory by stumping the province, singing hymns and reciting prayers at political rallies. When Aberhart...
Pupil & Master. Ernest Manning's blending of religion and politics had its beginning one Sunday afternoon 23 years ago. He was a Saskatchewan farm boy when he first heard a broadcast from Calgary by William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart, radio evangelist. Two years later, after listening to Aberhart every Sunday, he set out for Calgary to enroll as a student at Aberhart's Prophetic Bible Institute...
Night after night, big, hardy Bill Aberhart and the frail farm youth studied together, first the Scriptures, then more worldly books. When the depression was at its height they read Maurice Colbourne's Unemployment or War, expounding the theory of Social Credit for the redistribution of wealth, as originated by England's Major Clifford Douglas. Aberhart and Manning decided it was the answer to Alberta's problems...
...they resolved to form their own party, campaigned up & down the province at political rallies that opened with prayers and hymns. Depression-hit Alberta voted the Social Crediters into office with 51 of the 57 House seats. Ernest Manning, at 27, became Minister of Trade and Industry under Premier Aberhart...
...reform plans, which were to pay off $25-a-month government "dividends" to all adults. In 1937 the Dominion government stepped in, ruled that a province had no right to tamper with the banking system, and the Social Credit payoff never got out of the dream stage. When Bill Aberhart died in 1943, Social Credit's House membership had dropped...