GIRL BAPTISED IN SEA
CROWD PROTESTS. WEYMOUTH, July 24. Miss Gladys Jackson, 21. a visitor from Watford, Herts, was publicly baptised in the sea. here to-day by Pastor T. Rider of the Four Square Gospel Church. Mr. Joseph Wellman. 26. was also baptised, and the ceremony, was witnessed by thousands of holidaymakers. Wearing clerical clothes and waders ..the pastor carried Alias Jackson into .tlie sea, and after immersion brought her ashore. A section of tho crowd, protesting against the ceremony, surrounded Mr. Rider, who hud heated arguments with several people. He said afterwards: “The crowd was not hostile; it was only argumentative. ’’ Miss Jackson declared that she had been cured of paralysis by the lay ing-on of hands and the immersion.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 September 1938, Page 10
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