![]() ![]() She preached in tents, concert halls, boxing rings, and speakeasies, prayed for the healing of hundreds of thousands of people, founded a Church, built a Pentecostal temple of Hollywood dimensions in Los Angeles (Charlie Chaplin advised her on sets, Anthony Quinn played saxophone in the pit), and she became, in the 1920s and 1930s, such a celebrity that the press publicly thanked her for having given work to so many journalists. She preached up and down the United States, traveling in a 1912 Packard with her mother and her children, without a man to fix tires. ![]() But when the Lord spoke to her as she was at death's door, she accepted her ministry. She was a scamp in school, a young widow in China, and a neurotic housewife in Rhode Island. ![]() Aimee Semple McPherson was consecrated to God, before she was born, by her mother, a soldier of the Salvation Army. In Wichita she held up her hand to stop the rain. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1993 Sister Aimee : the life of Aimee Semple McPherson / Daniel Mark Epstein Book Bib ID ![]()
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