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SURPRISING MESSAGE TO BRIDE. LONDON, March 27. Friends sent a Barnstaple bride this telegram: “Read one John four verse eighteen,” referring to the First Epistle of John. , This is the line: “There is no fear in love; hut perfect love casteth out fear.”
But in transmission the telegram was changed to: “Read John four verse eighteen.” The bride opened her Bible at the Gospel according to St. John, and reacl: “For thou hast bad five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband. .
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 March 1935, Page 5
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