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...hurt them ..." members of the Little Pine Mountain Church of God were vexed when Kentucky's Legislature recently passed a law imposing a $50-$100 fine on those who (after June 12) "display, handle or use a snake or reptile in a religious service." Pastor George Washington Hensley last week told how his church, by testing faith by poison, had already got around the Legislature: "Brother Bradley Shell took a large dose of strychnine powders about 6 o'clock. We stayed with him until 11:30 and there was no bad effect on him because of his faith...
...Payne from Goose Creek." He was dismissed when it was found that he could hardly read, could write only his name. Talesman John B. Nicholson related that on the way to court he met a cousin, was informed: "John L. Lewis is some kind of Bolshevik." Talesman Owen Hensley knew that his brother Lige used to work in the coal mines, was surprised to hear that Lige is now with United Mine Workers of America in Harlan, reluctantly stepped from the box on that account...
...been the blunt refusal of grim Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury & Primate of All England, to allow any form of Church of England service at the wedding of her favorite son. It also happens that the bishop to whom Vicar Jardine owes allegiance is the Right Rev. Herbert Hensley Henson. Bishop of Durham, a noted liberal, longtime opponent of the Archbishop of Canterbury and one of the few bishops openly to support Novelist A. P. Herbert's liberalized divorce law. Just before the Coronation at which, as one of the King's supporters, he gazed for hours...
...Soon in Birmingham one female and three male Holy Rollers safely handled a rattler from which, it later was revealed, the fangs had been drawn at the behest of their Rev. Dewey L. Dotson. Famed in the rural districts of Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia is George Hensley, a cracker parson who has been publicly snakebitten 200 times, is apparently immune to serpent venom...
...Shelton Hale Scholarship has been awarded to Saul S. Friedberg 1L, of Cedarhurst, New York; the Rutherford B. Hayes Scholarship to Laurence E. Broh-Kahn 1L., of Cambridge; the Herbert Parker Scholarship to Isadore Paisner 1L., of Brookline; the Robert T. Swaine Scholarship to David R. Hensley 1L., of Montgomery City, Missouri...