SERPENT IN PULPIT
PREACHER NEAR TO DEATH INTENSE SUFFERING : SYLVIA: (North" Carolina), i ■ '"'.".’l'y ;/■' -V.^-c.';;- v ' ; Albert Tccstcr, a “Holiness ” preacher, waved a rattlesnake ip. ,h>s, . pulpit .jpn the previous Sunday to prove; the-truth of the biblical, exhortation,: “ Thou fhalt pick up serpents.” V ; b' • Yesterday the • preacher r conduct-jcl services ns usual, though in » weak state, having been near to ■ death ; -ail .the week. The snake - had twicebitccfl Teestcr on an arm. He refused medical -treatment, and >his. armi swelled <and bursti His tongue . also swelled: until ;It ■nearly choked .him. ■■■ ' But .Teester improved until, he,-rwas able to hobble round- the .cabin -; in which his wife died because she refused medical aid in child-birth.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22352, 28 August 1934, Page 7
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