Word: clampetts
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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From the platform beside Dr. James L. Gordon, pastor of the church, and Dr. Frederick W. Clampett, formerly of Trinity Episcopal Church in San Francisco, Mr. Burbank smiled benignly down at the mass of men and women before him, their warmly sympathetic faces turned towards him. As he commenced to read, his high-bridged nose took on a stern aquilinity; the lines on his forehead and about his lips grew deeper. From time to time he looked up from his manuscript and down among his audience at a person here, a person there. Over such would pass first a qualm...
...Clampett, who led the prayer service, prayed: "For the great army of scientists, God, we praise Thee. Forgive their mistakes, sanctify their efforts, crown their conquests. Greater than creed is the pureness, the kindliness, the gentleness, the sweet serenity of his [Burbank's] life and character. For his services to humanity, his great contribution to science, his great love of his fellows and above all his love of little children, we praise Thee." Dr. Gordon with gentle wit, to sympathetic laughter, put his arm about Mr. Burbank, saying: "We would be delighted to receive Luther Burbank into the fellowship...