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...malediction, pronounced in a sermon and letters to indignant followers, was reported in last week's issue of the New Day, his movement's newspaper. It ranges sweepingly over the book's "Writers, Publishers, Republishers, and those concerned. All Publications, Readers, Sympathizers, Harmonizers, Believers, Critics, Followers, Preachers and Priests, as well as Nations and others that coincide with those lies published in that book . . . They are cursed with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with the sword . . . They shall be smitten with botch of Egypt, with fire, with burning, with emerods, with madness and blindness and heart trouble...
...year, making the rounds of Baptist churches and organization meetings in 19 states. Among Baptist young folk, the large-eyed Joe is as popular as Charlie McCarthy ever was. His master finds that the ventriloquist's dialogue approach is a strikingly effective way of driving home his sermon messages...
Last week Baptists Joe and Corder, working out of their Atlanta headquarters, gave sermon performances as far away as Shreveport, La. Sample dialogue...
...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...
...fuel tank, welding a lid, when he found that the lid's bolts, which he had tightened with his fingers because he had forgotten his wrench, would not come unscrewed, and he was trapped inside. "The first thought that came to me was the subject of the Lesson-Sermon to be read in all Christian Science churches the next day, 'God the Preserver of Man.' I kept this in mind and prayed as I had been taught...