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...Beloved brethren: A little girl of our diocese, Pierrette Regimbal of Val D'Or, has for a few weeks past drawn upon her and retained the attention of the public. Thousands of persons . . . have lent a credulous ear to . . . strange reports on the child's pretensions. . . . People have cried 'miracle'. . . . Comparisons have gone so far as to compare the girl to Bernadette of Lourdes. . . . We esteem that [this] was, in truth, according her too great an honor...
Among many Southern hill sects this Biblical injunction has caused violent dissension. Conservatives hold that a believer who accidentally tromps on a snake will be protected by the Lord. More radical brethren consider it "phenomenal doctrine." They catch and baptize snakes drape them over their necks and arms with only the paralyzing power of prayer for protection...
...soon as he had died, his wife requested snake handling at the funeral. Almost 3,000 people came to watch. The brethren played guitars, cymbals and tambourines and when they got to shouting good, the snake handling began. The Rev. Raymond Hayes of Grasshopper put the serpent that had bitten Brother Ford into the coffin. It coiled up quietly on Brother Ford's chest. In the excitement Brother Hayes was bitten by a rattler, but he paid it no heed and felt all right afterward...
...wars, the bank has worked closely with Britain's Government. But a tradition of the Empire, as well as a symbol of free enterprise, would die if the Old Lady joined the Government. Many a Briton hoped that Harold Laski was running years ahead of his socialist brethren...
Administration of C.P.S. activity is directed and largely supported by the three traditional pacifist sects (Quaker, Mennonite, Brethren), but it is under the military supervision of the Selective Service System. Some sectarians wonder: should men obeying a religious authority which to them is superior to that of the state place themselves under such Government control? Others ask: should the Government accept the labor of these men without paying them...