Religion: Where There Was Blood

Beyond the pale of theology and over the boundaries of sects lies Herrin, Ill.— and is glad to be there. A man walked out of the town last week, and all Herrin shook hands with itself in delight—not that he had gone, but that he had come. For the man who went away was an evangelist, and Herrin had got religion.

He was a little ex-newspaperman from down Mississippi way. He himself was converted only two and one-half years ago by Gypsy Smith Jr. Said he:

"I have thought it right to go out in...

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