Doing Good, Apostolic Example of
Cromwell turned idols into money to fund practical acts of goodness.
Oliver Cromwell was a stanch Puritan, and could not brook the least approach to Popery. "What are these?" he once inquired, as he saw a dozen silver statues in the niches of a chapel. "The twelve apostles," replied the trembling dean. "Take them down," said Cromwell, "and coin them into money; so that they may go about doing good."