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Bizarre Meaning
by The Editors | posted 7/01/1997 12:00AM
A portion of a Commonweal editorial from July 22, 1925, reveals some of the eccentric aspects of this first media trial:
Fantastic as are many of the aspects of this amazing drama, ludicrous even as are some of the characters playing their parts amid movie cameras, buzzing aeroplanes, radio installations, clicking telegraph keys, chattering typewriters, and all the apparatus of up-to-the-last-minute publicity, some quality deeper and grave and more disturbing than all the issue of ordinary life pervades everything said or done.
As you turn into the grove of trees surrounding the court house, you read a hand-lettered sign which proclaims:
The Kingdom of God, Paradise Street, is at hand.
Forty days of prayer itemizing your sins and iniquities, for eternal life—if you come clean.
God will talk back to you in voice.
—Deck Carter, Bible Champion of the World
Deck Carter is an itinerant preacher who says he is the only person to whom God has talked since Joan of Arc. Hardened newspaper reporters ... To view this item, you must be a member of ChristianHistory.net.
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