[Publius6961]

Cash is very hard to trace...he should send it anonymously!

You're kidding, right?
The primary motivation for many people is publicity and exposure.

Reminds me of one of my favorite Mark Twain quips: "Some people, when they discharge an obligation, the report can be heard for miles around..."

[mdmathis6]

How much of it was the donor and how much of it was the press giddy with the excitement of a local man made good, focusing on everything the man was doing? Twain had a few choice things to say about the press as well...did,'t he write about them in "The Muckrakers"?

How many churches celebrate mortgage burning celebrations, puublically...a lot of them. Whe a sinner has his debt discharged by Jesus Christ, it is done so publically in front of people...Heaven puts on a HUGE celebration when one turns to the light! A woman sweeps and sweeps her house to find a lost coin(as Jesus taught), when she finds it, she calls all her friends to celebrate the finding of that coin. A law abiding man wins a zillion bucks in a lottery...psychologically what what would you expect his reaction to be, that of a pious sour puss, or that of a Joyful man? The fact that he remembered his God and donated a tithe of his offering to his favorite churches, as well as various charities counts for something. West Virginia is a poorer state and if a local man in a poor town gets a bunch of money...the economy around him will also benefit. No...think beyond what seems obvious here...more folks than just this man will benefit!