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...humorous letter of acceptance written by the News' Marathon coach David H. Nix, the following bold words announced their confidence: "Ye of the uncivilized north take heed, and decided now whether you dare follow through on your presumptuous challenge, for we vow to show no mercy...
...qualify as "beliefs" by any standard, and most of them are clearly not oriented toward God at all. Nonetheless, they may unwittingly reflect "the operation of the Holy Spirit," Bellah says. He looks on the Peace Corps, for instance, as "a secular monastic order whose members take a voluntary vow of poverty and go out to work for the alleviation of the sufferings of the world...
...share the stage with Allen, rejoice in the cures, and give a little pitch for their own services. Allen's specialty, along with the cures, is the $100 pledge, and the hard sell is usually made by one of his assistants. "The Scriptures say you got to vow and pay, vow and pay, vow and pay," Brother Don Stewart exhorted the Crouch Temple crowd last week. "You got to promise God, and you got to keep the promise. If you want him to lift your pain, to make you whole, to bring you joy, you got to have faith...
...course, they do-though many vow and only some pay. One night last week, such a pitch brought 35 pledges to the Allen altar on the first try-a cool $3,500 if the pledges are all filled. Allen, of course, is well aware that some ministers are offering to release guilty souls from their pledges in return for much smaller offerings. Some of his most fiery recriminations are reserved for these "racketeering preachers" who question his healings and seek to undermine his message to the faithful: that God will doubly repay whoever gives without limit...
Palach reportedly made a deathbed plea to "let no one else do it." His companions in the protest death pact apparently thought better of their vow-or at least about the method. In Prague, a pretty 18-year-old coed named Blanka Nachazelova died with her head in a gas oven. She left behind a note saying that she should have been Torch No. 2 but had chosen to use gas out of fear of the pain. The Czechoslovak Interior Ministry insisted that she had been forced to kill herself by unspecified other parties...