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...weather was forbidding as Lay Preacher Thomas Rankin arrived this Sunday at White's Chapel southwest of Petersburg, Virginia. He had planned to hold an open-air meeting, with shade trees shielding the congregation from the blazing southern sun. But it was raining, so he had to pack the worshipers into the chapel, while about 400 more clustered in the rain at the doors and windows. Then, as Rankin orated on Ezekiel's vision of the dry bones, the mixed crowd of whites and blacks began moaning and crying to God for mercy, some kneeling, some falling...
This was no isolated event. Similar paroxysms befell another congregation the previous Sunday, Rankin's first in the area, when he held two meetings at nearby Boisseau's Chapel. Indeed, at a series of May meetings at Boisseau's Chapel, says the Reverend Devereaux Jarratt, Anglican ally of the current revival, "the windows of heaven were opened and the rain of Divine influence poured down for more than 40 days...
Weed Killers. Several chemical firms have given cash and gifts to Illinois and Wisconsin state officials who bought the firms' weed killers and deicers. So far, 70 highway superintendents, sheriffs, sewer-plant supervisors -and even the mayors of the towns of Piper City and Rankin, Ill.-have admitted collecting bribes in return for approving official purchases at prices from two to five times competitive levels...
...LUCY L. RANKIN...
Died. Jeannette Rankin, 92, first woman ever elected to Congress; after a long illness; in Carmel, Calif. An outspoken suffragette and determined pacifist, Rankin was first sent to Congress by Montana voters in 1917, and was one of 50 Representatives who voted against declaring war on Germany. Returning for a second term in 1941, she again stunned her constituents by casting Congress' only vote against war with Japan. Though angry Montanans denied her another term, Rankin remained an active pacifist, and in 1968 led 5,000 women members of the Jeannette Rankin Brigade to Washington to protest the Viet...