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The crowning effort of musical achievement was a Christmas oratorio, "Regem Adorate" or "Worship the King," composed by Mrs. McPherson. It was presented fourteen times to capacity audiences with hundreds turned away each time, unable to gain admittance. Since that time, eighteen months ago, Aimee Semple McPherson has suddenly branched into a new line of endeavor as a song writer and
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composer. She describes her new venture briefly:
"Realizing that music is the universal language of all nations and that the soul finds expression in the creation of melody, I am vitally interested in the perpetuity of celestial strains. I have, therefore, devoted much of my time during my recent illness pouring forth from my own soul in drama and song the beautiful old stories of the Bible. It is my cherished hope and fondest dream to set eventually all of these to music."
• The commissary is an indispensable department in this unique institution, because of its wonderful, practical, humanitarian work of relieving hunger, sickness, need and trouble that abound in our great metropolis. A week or two ago when Aimee Semple McPherson returned from a trip around the world with her daughter, Roberta, in search of health and strength after
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a nervous breakdown, she was greeted at the Santa Fe depot in Los Angeles by a crowd of ten thousand. The acting mayor of the city in welcoming her paid her this tribute:
"Los Angeles owes to Aimee Semple McPherson a great debt that cannot be paid in dollars and cents for the work that is being accomplished through her commissary in feeding and clothing the poor of our city. We also appreciate greatly the wonderful evangelistic work you are doing and the souls you are bringing into the Kingdom."
In the main entrance of the Temple stands a life boat and into its capacious depths the Angelus Temple members and friends constantly pour packages of groceries, food, clothing and all the numerous articles of which poor families stand in need — from wheel chairs to baby clothes, from bedsteads to cookstoves. Regardless of creed or color all who are in need are aided.
This church has thousands of members and over two hundred and fifty branch churches. Thirty-five missionaries have been sent to the foreign fields and are supported by the membership. The theological seminary in the five-story building next to the Temple has an enrollment of nearly a thousand students. They publish a weekly newspaper and a monthly magazine.
• The reading public knows this extra-ordinary woman only as a good "headliner." There is probably no (Continued on Page 45)
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