Word: jim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Preacher. When Arthur Horner was born in Merthyr 53 years ago, Britain was mighty and coal was at the core of her might. Old Jim Horner raised his son to fear God. Young Arthur forgot much of what old Jim taught him, but Arthur never forgot that coal meant power...
Arthur discovered a talent for preaching. One day, a lay preacher in the town fell ill and asked Arthur to take his place. From then on, though he was only 16, his fluent voice began to echo through the Welsh valleys. Old Jim skimped to send the youngster to a Baptist training college...
...Then Jim Horner's money ran out. Arthur had to quit his religious studies, take a job in the coal pits. But he kept preaching. His sermons became tinged with socialism, and gradually only socialism remained. The mine owners fired him and he was blacklisted in all the Welsh mines. When World War I broke out, he refused to bear arms in what he called "an imperialist and anti-working-class...
...always, old Jim Horner, in his house at Merthyr, is sticking up for his son. Last week, putting his worn velvet slippers carefully on the blacklead fender before the fireplace, he declared stoutly: "They've had our Arthur in prison four times-but he never did do anything wrong...
...Arthur." It was Arthur Horner's father. Arthur's finish to the story: "Of course, as we got round the corner, I took the pack from the old man-but I was damned if I was going to cave in under the eyes of everyone there." Old Jim Horner has a topper to that finish; he claims that before they had traveled back to Wales, Arthur had converted his Guardsman escort to pacifism...