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Show Religion Dramatized A 14-year-old girl from California is received with acclaim ac-claim into a New York pulpit by a pastor who calls her "the most extraordinary person in America." The reasons for calling call-ing her that are that she is able to use the unusual exhortations exhorta-tions and because she had a "call to serve God." The girl's call came when she set off at the age of nine to try for a job in the movies. The door would not open when she arrived at the place where she was to seek work. This she interpreted as a call to the divine service. 1 ; in a clearing in Minnesota a group of people stand Mid pra, olemnly for a sign from heaven. The group asks for some i:rect, outward manifestation of the presence of Divinity. Motliing unusual happens. Sinclair Lewis stands in a pulpit in Kansas City and calls upon God to strike him dead, and take out his watch to cive tin whole thing a dramatic touch. , We are seeing a great deal of showmanship in religion, and wonder sometimes if there will be any signboards in heaven. |