Show fDa lee a rIe i-e i Minute 5 Biographies Author of How to Win Friends and Influence people AIMEE SEMPLE SEl McPHERSON t t SHE DIt L EE A d OLD R CAR Tt INTO TO LOS LOB to ANGELES GELES 1 AND D L MADE A MILLION IX lX 18 MONTHS 7 I tutee ee Semple ha 1 received more more front page newspaper c paper publicity than has anya any uny o a r In the history of th the world Even an unimportant news- news f cr story about her has hag sent countIss countless count count- 1 less Iss 88 thousands rushing to the news news- S s stands t a nod 9 A few years a ago o a LOS Angeles Angele paper came out with the report that she had changed the colon of her herh h hair h and the circulation of that p ph paper er cr jumped hundred percent per perc percent cent c nt In one day The story of her life reads like a II tale tate out out of or The Arabian Nights Legally her name la is Aimee Almee Hutton but to her faithful followers she Is affectionately affectionately affection affection- known as Sister Aimee Almee Horn norn In tiny farmhouse near tho the UI village e of M Ingersoll in Ontario Canada Sister Aimee e when only R married married maker boiler-maker i evangelist Yon named Robert Semple md mind i F. F away to China with him to tox x the heathen t Two wo years ears later her husband died and left lert her penniless in China with to 0 support support and and she was sot yet yit twenty years rears old She Rhe took up m a collection returned New to York and married a young youn r salesman Robert I ron sori con whom she met at a Army meeting Six lx years ears later she divorced him I load jJ her hor two children into a shabby shabby shab shab- 1 h by car and started West Vest stopping In almost every town she passed and calling callin on sinners to rep repent nt One evening Just at nt twilight thle i amazing woman drove into Los Angeles An I geles seles the City of t the tho o Angels and started darted on her incredible career SUE had no friends no influence influence noth nothing lug ing but two hungry children a battered battered lIatI bat lIat- I old car and less than a hundred hundred hun dred dollars In cash yet within eighteen months she was probably I the most famous woman In California Califor Califor- I nia and she had bald a million dollars dollars' worth of property I I She starter started preaching her gospel Sospel I Ilof lof of joy declaring the kingdom kindom of or I Heaven was at hand and huge hUge crowds followed to hear her I Los Angeles went want wild The City of the An Angels els had never known know such a sensation In a little more than Ihan a year her shouting followers I had built her the hugh Anelus Anelu Temple costing one and a n half million million million mil mil- lion dollars and they had given It H to h her r as her own property to todo todo todo do with as she wished This great temple is packed with humanity an hour before the s service service rv- rv ice fre starts the doors are closed and hundreds are turned away Under I the magic spell of her mystic personality personality personality per per- sinners forsake their ways and the lame and the tle halt throw throwaway throwaway throwaway away their crutches and declare that they have havo been made whole I On Mo May bray IS 1926 she went out iut outto ut to Ocean Park put on her pea-green pea bathing suit sull swam swain out Into tho tiro thO Pacific Ocean and disappeared red com com- Southern So n California was I rocked by the news It was a tremendous tremendous tre tre- I men dous sensation I After Afler being being- missed two thirty-two days she suddenly appeared at a a Ionel lonely little cabin callin on the edge edge of oC a a- 3 tiny village in Mexico Where had she been She Shede tie de Ie dared that she hail had been held si n prisoner during all that time Many people refus refused d to belief her leer se sensational tale She was dragged into court and the best hest legal minds in California examined her and examined cross her She was baited Investigated grilled and denounced but no ono one could over o shake her story Some people ridicule Sister Aimee Almee some ado adore e her But nut friends and foe tJ alike all all admit admit that she has accomplished accomplished an nn Jus us of good goOl and that she is one of or the most amazing women of or th lh tho t twentieth century I I |