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/ roses at ner breast. anu Tic HeAFt
/ within her burning for the clasp
| of q lovers arms.
/ Her head is thrown back, her
fun red mouth parted, an eager
exultance is about her.
She turns her eyes, hazel, a light
brown in the daylight. but now
dark and glowing.
you know what mean, don't
| YOUR" she asks in c0lloQuial voice.
/ Coming down, as 1t were, from rap.
turous heights to plain speech.
Emotional Over Jesus
Yes, / think l do. You despisR
sterile natures. You admit you are
emotional. You"
Yes" she Interrupts II pray
| God to keep me that way"
"You mean you think you had a
right to be emotional over Kenneth
| Ormiston," I CHANGED.
"I was emotional over the Lord
Jesus Christ--not over q radio op.
| orator." she answered And I
want to continue to be emotional
over Jesus"
Wei, at any rate, both "Sister
Aimee" and Mother Kennedy" are
worried about OrMlstOn. Sister
| Aimee said to me twice:
eff only Orpiston were not in
the plot"
That looks as If Aimee were get.
ting ready to offset anything that
| Ormiston may say that does not
help her case.
with his larneness and all, said
| Mother Kennedy, I don't see
how he could have hidden from
sight so long"
If you read the newspapers you.
at least know the highlights in the
Aimee Semple Mcpherson story.
The chances are that you even
know the details.
Amazing Story
The story is too amazing for any
one to overlook it. 1t has all the
popular elements-sex lure, mys-
terry, weird kidnapers. And through
It all like q trumpet blast the halle
lujah religion preached by Sister
Aimee" in Angelus Temple. Los
Angeles.
But though we may know every
incident or only the cliInaxes in the
tale, wonder IL anyone really has
an linking OF the real Ormiston.
It would be interesting IL OFmiS.
ton, the ATHEIST, made Sister
Aimee" the Christian, 90 back TO
her religion.
There are some who now believe
that. They say that while Orrnis-
ton never professed any religion he
was wondrously kind to the sick,
who came asking for healing over
the radio.
There are tales Of the many kind
nesses he did for the sick poor, who
came in person to AngeIus Temple.
Tales Of Omission
There are also tales about Ormis.
ton and the ladies', not least among
them the Car1nelite Of the famous
grocery list, that IS alleged to be IN
Aimee'B handwriting.
Some OF those who believe all
these tales. and take at its face value
the so-called ''wuffe love letter,
alleged to have been written by
Aimee to OyFniston, point to the line
in the letter that asks why did you
make me come back?"
''OrmistOn knew That he and
Aimee would be detected together
sooner or later" declare these the
OriSts. $50 he made Aimee go back
while there was still q chance not
to disfIluSiOn her followers.
"A far-fetched theory? Well, the
town is full of every kind Of theory.
You take your choice.
Everywhere but at Angelus Tenn
pie. There, among her followers,
there Is but one kind Of theory.
Aimee is the victim OF devilish
plot. She is the victim, not the per-
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bring adoring words-and also much
cash!
Collection Day
The first Sunday of every month
is collection day for the beloved
pastor, Sister Aimee"
At dawn they began to come last
Sunday. Cars were parked for
blocks around the temple. Not many
high powered cars. The sort Of
"benzine buggies" you would expect
to find.
1t was the morning OF the day on
throng that Satan was the biggest
course, on that afternoon the
They had hoped that Aimee would
down upon her head libel suit.
But she did not disappoint her FOL.
lowers-the thousands who, in the
morning, had given their cash of.
fering. It must have been a tidy
sum. At least 1000, perhaps 5000,
dropped something into the plate. u
saw one $40 bill, two fives ans much
small silver 60 into the envelopes
for the plate that came my way.
The pastors collection, they say.
has tncreased-not diminished--since
that balmy day when Sister Aimee
put on the green bathing suit and
dove down into those strange waters
that carried her to the boarder line
Of Arizona and Mexico.
Say She Is Rich
Nobody knows her real financial
status. They say she is rich Those
who should know tell me that the
deed to the valuable Ange as Tenn
pie property stands in her own name
and that Of her mother.
But. at that, / can't Delieve that
Aimee is shrewd about money.
Someone else must loox after the
money end of it.
Aimee is much too willful, too
emotional, to personally manage
the business end.
She has a natural dramatic
| sense. She knows how to time and
stroke every second of the services
in the Temple. She is a gorgeous
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