Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston's independent Methodist weekly, Zion's Herald, the Rev. ]. D. Townsend, pastor of the Providence (R.I.) Methodist Tabernacle, last week reminded his readers that "the story of Christianity is an almost unbroken chronicle of warfare...
...Wise County, Va., a snake leaned out and bit the wife of the Rev. Harve Kirk, a reverend of the Faith Holiness cult. Though Mrs. Kirk was pregnant, she refused medical aid. Harve prayed as never before and every available Faith Holiness member hurried up to pray, too. But Mrs. Kirk's hand swelled up and turned black. Her baby was born prematurely and died in 20 minutes. Mrs. Kirk kept shouting "Precious God" and "Glory to His Name." Six hours later she died...
...soon as he had died, his wife requested snake handling at the funeral. Almost 3,000 people came to watch. The brethren played guitars, cymbals and tambourines and when they got to shouting good, the snake handling began. The Rev. Raymond Hayes of Grasshopper put the serpent that had bitten Brother Ford into the coffin. It coiled up quietly on Brother Ford's chest. In the excitement Brother Hayes was bitten by a rattler, but he paid it no heed and felt all right afterward...
...into the Indiana farmlands. Soil-grimed men muttered to themselves: "It can't be so." Not the Bobby Colby they had known: he had gone to church regularly, did his farm chores all right-except that he would not even kill the chicken for Sunday dinner. The Rev. Lenn L. Latham said: "Some people say they think that psychologically the Army made a killer...
Married. Captain Mildred Helen McAfee, 45, director of the WAVES, pres- ident of Wellesley College; and Congregationalist Rev. Dr. Douglas Horton, 54; she for the first time, he for the second; in Jaffrey, N.H. The bridal gown had a hint of Navy rank: tailored white crepe with gold buttons and gold belt...