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Surprising things happen in the name of God in Washington's Griffith Stadium when Elder Lightfoot Solomon ("Happy am I") Michaux holds "services...
...visit to Alaska, Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, Negro evangelist, chartered a plane, flew out over the Bering Sea, heaved out a watertight canister containing a Russian-language Bible. Elder Michaux's hope: that the Bible would wash up on Russian territory, and that "God would send the proper person to find it and get it to the people of Russia...
...Aviation Corp., Tom Girdler's Republic Steel, altogether more than a score of corporations. His annual income: "Call it about $50,000 a year." He also belonged to the American Red Cross and the Boy Scouts of America and was an honorary deacon in Elder Solomon Lightfoot Michaux's Negro Church...
Thus, as he will every week for the next year, Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux took his famed Radio Church of God from its Washington, D.C., tabernacle to Manhattan "to open a second front against the Satanic kingdom." For singing the devil and hell out of a town, Elder Michaux-self-styled "General of the International Forces of Right against Wrong"-has at least one solid endorsement: successive police chiefs in Washington have declared his preaching reduces crime...
...Michaux disciples must avoid "rum, rowdy women, slot machines and big talk." But excitement is provided them at the Elder's services. "That was a great mass meeting we had this morning, pilgrims," says the Elder when his congregation has really cut loose. "You can always tell when the Holy Ghost and fire come down. I got burnt this morning myself...