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...shop for which his congregation was growing too large, let it be known that he was in the market for a church. Two strangers approached him, told him they were agents for a bank which had a fine, large church for sale, price $96,000, on the installment plan. Parson Frazer paid $22.50 down, was told that it would be a few weeks before the congregation using the church would move...
...last week, Parson Frazer had paid $850 for his church. Impatient to take possession, he prodded the agents. Finally they gave him two keys, and wished him well. Eagerly he went to the church, found that the keys did not fit, was shocked to learn that the Seventh Day Adventist congregation within did not know that their church had been sold. Parson Frazer took to his bed with chagrin...
...career of Negley Parson-athlete, munitions salesman, aviator, foreign correspondent, lover-has been, if nothing else, a testament to his superb physique. As readers galloped through his best-selling autobiography, The Way of a Transgressor, their wonder grew how a man could avoid cracking up even halfway through such adventures...
...thoroughly in the ticklish trick of winding up his sermon on the dot. Recently the Rev. Mr. Sieck was invited to KMOX again. This time he knew all the answers. Glancing over his spectacles now and then at the big studio clock as he rolled off his message. Parson Sieck was pleased to fancy that he and the big second hand were finishing in an expert dead heat. "Glory to God in the highest," he intoned, "Amen...
...Well boys," he crowed, "we hit it right on the nose." Actually Parson Sieck had fallen short of the nose by some two seconds, and his last remark hit pious radio listeners right in the eardrums...