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Miss Mary Cherry, a perpetual guest, is Uncle George's prize opponent in argument. She quotes Scripture in her bass voice with venomous effect; nags him for a sot and schemes against him about his daughter's marriage. Parson Bates, a hard-drinking, ruddy giant who mispronounces "sacrilegious," is a third party to their wrangles...
...which the bride never came for a reason which he long disdained to reveal; Cousins Hester and Micajah McGehee, who stuck a pin in their candle to show whose turn it was to talk; the first Communion of Uncle George's black man, Solomon, who reported that the parson had given him the cup with the words: "Pass de goblet an' say, 'Brethren, jink...
...public has overwhelmingly rendered its verdict of acquittal and exoneration," announced the attorney for the defense last week, which was six weeks before the trial. Of course he referred to Parson Norris, the Fort Worth Baptist who shot a man for remonstrating with him about attacks on his fellowtownsmen (TIME, July...
...attorney for the state conjured 14-year-old Carl Glaze as his mystery witness, and according to the prosecutors, gazing Glaze has seen sufficient to wreck the Parson's plea of self-defense. Dr. Norris is the potent medicine-man of the Texas Fundamentalists. With the aid of the Ku Klux, who he claims have rallied to his cause, he may get off easily. But some, who do not take Dr. Norris' medicine, hope District Attorney Hanger lives up to his name...
...when he betrayed his Lord with 'Hail, Master' on his lips, went and hung himself, but these modern Judases [Liberals] continue to occupy the pulpit and use the name of Christ and live off the money of orthodox people." Dr. Norris reached for a desk drawer. Pious Parson Norris was indicted in 1912 at Fort Worth for perjury and arson in connection with the burning of his church. Disciples did not desert him, rather increased in number. He has soaked Texas evangelical prospects in a religious fervor approaching fanaticism. Dr. Norris drew a pistol; shot. Mr. Chipps fell...