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...floored by the poverty that haunts his father with the workhouse, wrecks his mother's and sister's health and prematurely kills both, and sweeps the Nimmos into humiliating dependence on neighbors. He is floored by his preacher-father's Puritan code and his mathematical proofs of the imminent second coming of Christ. He is floored by his elder sister's erratic half-fond, half-bullying rule over him when their mother dies...
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Reportedly, Douglas had originally been one of the top contenders for the position of University Preacher, but was switched to the Divinity School list because the committee "thought so much...
...young man, Vincent Van Gogh, the son of a Calvinist minister, worked as a lay preacher among the poor coal miners of Belgium. At 26 he was dismissed by church authorities because his methods were too unorthodox (e.g., he gave his money, his clothes, even his bed to his flock). But for the rest of his short (1853-90), tormented life, Van Gogh's art showed a religious fervor that made his work leap from the canvas into the heart...
...office over a Dallas cigar store. The business grew into the present Mercantile National Bank, one of Dallas' Big Three. Although Bob became a bank president and a local big shot, he made his reputation as a supersalesman. "Everybody's got to sell," he says. "Preacher's got to sell his sermon, butcher's got to sell his beefsteak." And Thornton had to sell Dallas...