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Cried the Reverend John Whetstone: "It's only an aurora borealis." But most people in the Kentucky mountain town of Blakesburg were terrified. They had never seen or heard of an aurora borealis. Mountain-born and Bible-bred, they thought that the apocalyptic spasms of light which possessed their night sky meant the End of Time. They acted accordingly...
Doubting Divine. The fourth God-seeker was the Reverend Job Tatum, who had risen from the wrong side of the tracks to the pulpit of one of Manhattan's toniest churches. But on Easter Sunday, 1944, when Job intoned his text, "I am the Resurrection and the Life," none of the congregation (which included Gladys, Laura and Nick) knew that Job had suddenly realized that "he did not believe a word of what he was saying...
After some nine symbolical months of doubt and travail, all of Author Walworth's characters dramatically bring forth faith in God. The Reverend Job's faith returns when he goes back to work in the slums. Actor Nick Romney finds faith by repulsing Melita's fleshly charms and acting his clergyman's role to perfection. Laura is saved when Henry is struck down by a terrible sickness. Gladys learns the meaning of religion when she goes to Christmas service and "sees" her dead fiancé there, in battle dress...
...Instinctively, I might even say professionally, I am democratic," said the Devil. "When I see that many people reading a book, I want to know what they are reading about besides a hero named the Reverend London Wingo...
...prejudices. When The Gauntlet opens, this Wingo is studying at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has married 'a tiny, merry raindrop of a girl' who has bobbed hair (it is 1923) and insists on being called Kathie instead of Katherine. She is also pregnant, and the Reverend Wingo is wondering where he is going to get the money for the delivery. So he goes to his friend, the Reverend Page Musselwhite, and tells him: 'I want to find Truth. It seems to me that at times my mind, my reason, is challenging my spirit, throwing down...