Word: elijah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preaching. She founded a society of her own. That was nearly 40 years ago. Her church became known as the Pillar of Fire. Widowed, Mrs. White started a pious, shouting, camp-meeting community in New Jersey, named it Zarephath after the place where the "widow woman" sustained Elijah. Alma White was soon acting like a bishop toward her flock; why should she not be "the first woman bishop in the history of the Christian church?" Pillar of Fire consecrated her as such...
Back in Texas, Elijah William Cunningham went to work as a reporter for the Dallas News, at the same time coached Southern Methodist University's football team. One of his jobs as a reporter was to interview Arctic Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Bill, married only a few days, took his bride along to impress her. But Stefansson was irritable. Said he: "If you are any kind of reporter you won't need to take notes." Thereupon he tore through a staccato monologue, dismissed his interviewer...
Some 45 years ago in Durham, Me. "Rev." Frank. W. Sandford, a magnetic little man who had been an able baseball player, founded the Holy Ghost and Us Society, built some gilt-domed frame houses on a hilltop which he called "Shiloh." He named himself "Elijah," claimed he had the ear of the Holy Ghost, collected money in abundance from 1,000 followers...
Sandford staged cures and claimed he raised the dead, but at least 20 people died without medical care at Shiloh, and "Elijah" was thrice tried for manslaughter. He was convicted of nothing, however, until 1911, when he returned from a world voyage on a leaky schooner. Six followers had died of scurvy, exposure or starvation. Tried for manslaughter, Sandford was sentenced to ten years in Atlanta Penitentiary, was released after six, then disappeared from public sight...
...father's name was Elijah, and his mother's name was Eunice, and he was born at Westchester Landing on the Bronx River in New York in 1807. His Quaker parents christened him Ezra...