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...restoring" art masterpieces. They can take a brown, wrinkled, flaking canvas and turn it into a picture that looks like new. They can also turn Rembrandt's Night Watch into a Day Watch, expose an extra pair of ears on the Van Eyck brothers' Adoration of the Lamb, or transform Brueghel's Hunters in the Snow from a haunting evocation of winter dusk into a Grandma Moses-type picture of sparkling noontime cheer. The restorer's results are unquestionably dramatic, but is the drama comedy or tragedy...
...ever arose, Gikuyu should make a sacrifice and raise a hand toward Mount Kenya, and Ngai would help. Not far away, under a fig tree, Gikuyu found a beautiful woman, Moombi, to be mother of the Kikuyu race. Later, when their nine beautiful daughters needed husbands, Gikuyu sacrificed a lamb and a kid under a fig tree, smeared their blood on its bark, faced Mount Kenya, and saw his daughters' wishes come true...
Redheaded Gene Monti spends his idle hours polishing the Swedish steel runners of his sled to a high glint, lovingly stores them away in wrappings of lamb's wool...
...years ago, and built it up to an average Sunday attendance of about 140. When Baptist Pike hit on the idea of his "special service," he enlisted some men from his congregation to build a cross about five feet high and to buy a newborn lamb. His sermon was called "Watching Christ Die," and its text was Matthew 27:36 ("And sitting down they watched him there"). After he had finished preaching that night, the lamb was brought in and wired to the cross. Then the lights were turned out, a man of the congregation slit the lamb...
Last week Pike struck back in an open letter to the Lebanon Democrat: "The little lamb some are so upset about certainly served a better purpose of dying on that cross than by being shipped to the slaughterhouse and there made into lamb chops for somebody's oven ... If some of the people who are so zealous to avenge that lamb were concerned over their own lives, and sin, and soul, and the Bible truth that you saw at Temple Baptist Church of how Christ died, we could have a great revival in this city . . . We shall have another...