Word: pentecostalists
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...hoops, she was teaching her dog Jip to pray, and preaching to the animals in her father's barnyard. Her faith began to waver as she grew older, and she was almost lost in agnosticism when in 1908 she attended a prayer meeting conducted by a handsome young Pentecostalist preacher named Robert Semple. She married him a few months later. Together they traveled to India and to China, Robert preaching and Aimee playing the piano. In Hong Kong, Robert Semple died of fever. One month later his daughter Roberta was born...
...Poland into Russia, Ernest Elmer Baker ended up in a detention camp at Minsk, where he was identified last summer by the second secretary of the U. S. Embassy at Moscow (TIME, July 1). Last week, with $100 raised by his family to repatriate him, the Embassy had Pentecostalist Baker brought to Moscow, thence to be shipped to the U. S. Wearing fur cap, fur-lined jacket and high boots, he joyously scrutinized the Kremlin, bemoaned the loss of his Bible. Said he: "I wasn't much more than a skeleton when the Russians picked me up. ... I couldn...