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THE STORY BY MACK McMACK
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few years and still not exhaust all the novelties, and particularly," he says, "in the line of religion."

The point is, to cut it short, that this gentleman said that his wife and he had found a lot of interest in investigating the different kind of religions in Los Angeles.

Say! That guy may have been a farmer, but he wasn't so slow when it come to the real low-down on philosophy and religion! Say, he could teach me some things I didn't know!

He informed me (and I've had no reason to question his statistics) that this lady prophet, this Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson, had increased her membership turnover 1800 per cent. in two years, and that out of all her faith-healings, 62.9 per cent. had been successful and lasting, as observed by regular conservative physicians, over a period of two years, or it may have been even more than two years, I can't at the present moment, not having made a note of it, be exactly sure about the period involved.

And then—say! He certainly did tell me about