Word: dake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pentecostal Church of God in Baltimore one night last week, Rev. John William Pitcher and five members set out to break the cover-to-cover Bible reading record (69 hr., 17 min.) of Rev. Finis J. Dake & team of Zion City, Ill. (TIME, Feb. 26). It took Preacher Pitcher's team 50 hr. and 56 min. to go from Genesis to Revelation. Then all arose and sang: "Praise God from Whom all blessings flow...
...Zion, Ill. one night last week Rev. Finis J. Dake read these words, the ten first in the Bible, from his pulpit in small Christian Assembly Church. He continued reading, through Genesis into Exodus. After four hours he stopped. A Mr. Slutz mounted the pulpit, went on where Mr. Dake left off. Two hours later a young woman started in on Leviticus. On & on the reading went, a monotonous drone which was broadcast outside the church with loudspeakers. Preacher Dake was putting on a Bible-reading marathon and wanted everyone to know...
...Bible reading continued, with church people spelling each other, through a second night and a third, by candle light. Curiosity-seekers motored from Chicago and Milwaukee to listen and watch. At last Mr. Dake got up to attend to Revelations himself. Whipping through its 22 chapters in 55 min. he read, The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen, and flipped the Bible closed. The reading of 773,746 words had been done in 69 hr. 17 min., which Preacher Dake declared a record. (In Cincinnati the Old & New Testament were read synchronously...