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Founder and high priestess of the Apostolic Faith is an indomitable white-haired woman named "Mother" Florence Louise Crawford, 63. She believes that God spoke to her in 1906 when, twice married and the mother of two, she was dancing. "I did not know the voice of God and went on in the dance. . . . My feet became heavy and the place was no longer beautiful to me. Again the voice spoke much louder, 'Daughter, give me thine heart!' The music died away and I left the ballroom; and for three days and nights I prayed and wept...
...Crawford declared she was healed of eye trouble, lung trouble, a deformity, and an internal ailment. She founded a mission in a Portland blacksmith shop, began preaching against divorce and remarriage. She firmly advocated tithing, explaining to her followers that the Gospel is against life insurance, labor unions, lodges, the cinema, bobbed hair, stylish garb and other extravagances. Thriving on tithes plus free-will offerings at meetings, the Apostolic Faith now has $500,000 worth of property, a printing plant, a Live Gospel Mission ("Brightest Spot in Portland"), others in Norway, Sweden, South Africa and Bowling Green, Ky. Treasurer...
Thus warmly in Manhattan last week did Vice President & General Manager Crawford T. Perkinson of Mount Hope Cemetery Association keynote before the seventh annual convention of the New York State Association of Cemeteries, whose 900 member institutions bury 150,000 people a year at an estimated cost of $15,000,000. Superintendent John C. Plumb of Woodlawn Cemetery drove this pious point home, declaring that: "From time immemorial, people have endeavored to perpetuate the memory of their loved ones. In a greater sense this has been a service to the living. By keeping these last resting places as hallowed spots...
...tennist since the Doherty brothers, who, playing far better than a year ago, had won the Men's Singles Championship for the second year in a row by beating von Cramm in the final, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4. The round before, Perry had beaten Australia's Jack Crawford, Wimbledon champion in 1933, and von Cramm had beaten redhaired Donald Budge of California who, in his first appearance at Wimbledon, had done so well that he may be chosen to play singles on the U. S. Davis Cup team when it goes into action July...
...When "Wimbledon Week"?which lasts two, climaxes the London season? ended, three other championships had been decided: Men's Doubles, Crawford and Adrian Quist of Australia; Women's Doubles. Katherine Stammers and Freda James of England; Mixed Doubles, Perry and Dorothy Round...