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Los ^Angeles — %eligions
" One hundred and thirty-three baptisms," said the secretary of Alexander's Missions. "Yes, I tell you it takes some organization to keep that going. But if one person can make a one-hundred-million-dollar Gospel Syndicate a success, Aimee is the woman."
On a subsequent occasion we visited one of her healing services ; although the crutches of the maimed and the bandages of the blind are freely exhibited as souvenirs, there are suspicious tales of prearranged cures of this kind. Epilepsy and stomach trouble are her favourite illnesses. Over one young man with the latter complaint she prayed with fervour for ten minutes ; then she clapped him cheerfully on the back and cried :
" That job's done. You're cured." Then, flinging her hand upward : " Thank yer, Jesus ; pass along the next one, please."
Such were the spiritual orgies in which our gardener and his family indulged themselves several nights a week. For Americans they were barebones poor, just having escaped the fate of the 80,000 workless in the city. Yet they owned an old car in which they transported their tools and drove to and from the meetings. However, the joys of the Foursquare Gospel seemed to be wearing thin. Even the superior excitements of the two and the five hundred rooms where the elect rose to pitches of religious animation higher than in the public temple must have been losing their grip, for one day he said to me :
" Say, Mr Gordon, what do you think of these Holy Rollers? Don't you think maybe they get into closer communication with the spirit even than Mrs McPherson ? "
Holy Rollering is the last lap of spiritual progression, but, unlike Aimee's demonstrations, Holy Rollering did not bulk very largely among the numerous freak religions of Los
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