Religion: Halleluhah! Praise the Lord!

A young ex-marine with a guitar sang nasally:

Life is like a mountain railroad

With an engineer that's brave;

We must make the run successful—From the cradle to the grave. . . .

See that Christ is your conductor!

His listeners accompanied him with clapping hands and stamping feet. They had gathered, as they did three times a week, in their curtained store-front church to worship God and seek the kingdom of heaven. Detroit's Home Missionaries Gospel Mission is typical of nearly 2,000 store-front congregations in the Detroit area, and of uncounted thousands across the...

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