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...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...
Jackass Age. Cotton Ed was a conscientious objector to the 20th Century. He walked out of the 1936 Democratic Convention in high dudgeon because a Negro preacher read a prayer. He was a drag-end isolationist. He was a believer in poll taxes; he was never heard to protest a Southern lynching; and he stood prepared to filibuster to the end against an anti-lynching bill. He decorated his speeches by "pings" at a spittoon ten feet away, or if there were no spittoons, he would spit on the Senate carpet...
Under an Almond Tree. The man behind the heifer project is 50-year-old, grey-haired Dan West, who owns a farm near Goshen, Ind., but who spends most of his time traveling around the country for the heifer program. Son of a Brethren preacher, he thought up the heifer plan under an almond tree in Murcia, Spain, where he was engaged in relief work during the Spanish Civil War. Spain's undernourished children, with less milk than a Hottentot, inspired him with the thought of importing U.S. cows to Spain...
...Poling, president of World's Christian Endeavor Union, editor in chief of the Christian Herald, is preaching eight Sundays at Scots as 1944 Turnbull preacher. The Turnbull Trust was established (1925) by four sons and a daughter of Scots' parishioners, Mr. & Mrs. John Turnbull. They gave ?5,500 ($27,500), the income from which is used to invite "eminent clergymen from other parts of the world" to preach at Scots. Preacher Poling allowed Scots to pay only his traveling expenses. Scots Church was built by David Mitchell, father of the late great soprano Nellie Melba, who used...
...Touch. What makes Since You Went Away sure-fire is in part its homely subject matter, which has never before been so earnestly tackled in a film, in part its all-star acting (everybody registers with all his might, down to Lionel Barrymore's few seconds as a preacher and Newcomer Guy Madison's brief, effective appearance as a sailor), most of all David Selznick's extremely astute screen play and production...