WORLD’S LONGEST SERMON
PREACHED OVER TWELVE HOURS.
AMERICAN NEGROE’S ENDURANCE.
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.
Rec. 10.30 p.m. Washington, June 8. The Rev. George Brown, a coloured pastor of the Mount Zion Baptist Church, claims the world’s record longest sermon of 12 hours 10 minutes. He preached on Sunday 88,794 words. Four lamb chops, a leg of chicken and a glass of milk sustained him through the ordeal. His first subject, gambling, occupied three hours; companionate marriage carried him along until dark; the prohibition evil and dancing occupied the early evening. Famine was the subject reached at 10 o’clock, when he finished the chicken and then resumed and continued strongly until midnight.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1931, Page 5
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