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...class," he says, and it came apart when he was three. An aunt raised him, along with 13 of his cousins, and he turned into a troublemaker. "I was sent to a house-you know, for incorrigible boys. Evidently they saw Attica in advance. But they didn't cure...
...imminent death in life. As far as the sexual explosion is concerned, I suspect a lot of what you've heard is just noise. "Sex is something I really don't understand too hot," I said. It still remains a mystery to the adolescent. I have no cure, only consolation: someone has passed this way before...
Overnight Cure. Roberts still believes in and practices faith healing. Many of the cures he describes might be dismissed as psychogenic, but some-which he duly emphasizes-are not so easily explained. One of the most striking stories in his catalogue of claimed cures goes back to the early '50s, when he prayed with a crippled ten-year-old boy in Roanoke, Va. As the story goes, the boy's withered leg- 21 inches short - grew back to normal overnight...
...Pilgrim's Progress as it might have been rewritten by Horatio Alger. All the hagiographic basics are there: his mother's vow to give her child to God in return for the healing of a neighbor's child; his bloody bout with tuberculosis and miraculous cure (God to Oral: "Son, I am going to heal you, and you are going to take the message of my healing power to your generation"); his three-part challenge to God (asking for a crowd, money to pay for the hall, and convincing healings) to determine whether he should stay...
Mahalia Jackson never sang the blues. "Blues are the songs of despair," she liked to say. "Gospel songs are the songs of hope. When you sing gospel you have the feeling there is a cure for what's wrong." Mahalia had the gift of making her audiences feel there was a cure too. She began her performance with a Bible reading ("to give me inner strength"), then just seemed to brim over with music. Shaking her head till the combs flew out of her hair, whacking her hands together or stretching her arms ecstatically over her head, she raised...