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...Washington Auditorium almost in the shadow of the White House. Ordinarily given to concerts, conventions, exhibitions and beer parties, the Auditorium was bustling from top to basement with a religious conclave of 10,000 pious souls. In the big auditorium proper were folding chairs, loudspeakers and a banner, FOR JEHOVAH AND FOR GIDEON. Nearby was a temporary hospital staffed by voluntary nurses and a big rawboned country doctor. Through the three floors surged unpowdered women of all ages, many carrying children; coatless young men; sober old men; Scandinavian-looking farmers. They had come from as far away as California, most...
...Jehovah buried, Satan dead, do fearers worship Much and Quick...
...achieves a state of grace before each performance by meditating alone for half an hour, and has never yet made an entrance to Gabriel's strident cue "Gangway for de Lawd God Jehovah" without breaking into a cold sweat. "If you got to thinking about it too much and let it get hold of you offstage as well as on," says he, "I don't think your sanity would stand it. It's a hard part to play." He has had to put up with a good deal of hysterical adoration. A friend of 50 years...
While two yellow-robed girls stood sentry-like at each side of the chancel, Miss Schirmer postured, gestured and attitudinized. The organ played Schubert's "Great Is Jehovah," and by consulting their programs the congregation knew that Miss Schirmer was interpreting "The Greatness of God." Registering wonder, adoration, obeisance, awe, supplication she continued with "The Peace of God That Passeth All Understanding" (music by Gluck); "The Universality of God" (Beethoven); "The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness" (Bach); "The Deep Sense of Abiding in God" (Beethoven); "Angels Announcing the Coming of the Messiah" (Bach). The whole thing...
...Jehovah unsuccessfully offers to an aristocratic Manhattan spinster the honor of giving virgin birth to another Messiah...