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Los ^Angeles — Religions
the organization counts. There's nobody else in Los when Mrs McPherson is about, let me tell you that. ..."
Meanwhile, below on the stage a clumsy dumb-crambo had been enacted. A negro girl in a pink cotton frock, an overseer in a ruffianly beard, as if from a comic film, and two evangelists thinly disguised as Southern gentlemen, carried out an ill-acted slave sale, interrupted by a fourth evangelist, supposed to represent Abraham Lincoln, who mounted a rostrum, and while the three slaving scoundrels shrank from his presence shouted :
" I proclaim all the slaves free ! "
During this pantomime Aimee had been seated carrying on an animated conversation over a portable telephone. Now she sprang to her feet and, gripping the microphone, shouted :
" And I proclaim all sinners free if they will only believe. Praise God ! "
The levelled arms were presented.
" Praise God ! " riposted the audience.
" Now the main floor only," cried Aimee.
11 Praise God ! "
" Now the first balcony."
" Praise God ! "
" Now the upper balcony."
Evidently the conversion of the sinner in this balcony had been, as my old neighbour said, something of a miracle. Compared with the stalls and dress circle, the gallery was faint-hearted, a place of scepticism and curiosity. To achieve a convert in the outermost circle testified to unusual power.
" There's a countryman of yours preaching here yesterday an' to-morrer," whispered the old woman, " but he don't wield the power. Why, he wrestled with the sinners for a full half an hour, and in the end all he got was two converts. Two ! "
She uttered this wretched sum with undisguised contempt.