| Prophecy, Scorn and a Rejection of This World: The Forbidding Vision of a Faith-Healing Preacher Walter White baptizes a Followers of Christ member in 1951. He led an Oregon City, Oregon, offshoot of the sect. Courtesy of the Phillips family It was a stark and forbidding vision for those who followed the righteous path. Scorn, the preacher told his congregation, was a person's lot if they led an 'honest, clean, pure, godly life.' The world hated 'people that live like that,' he said. |
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