So did F. Nelson Blount—and he succeeded before he was thirty!. . . Because he wanted to run a loco motive he bought a railroad. . . . This led to his acquiring other “iron horses” headed for the scrap heap—and through Blount’s ef forts, Steamtown, USA, at Bellows Falls, Vermont, was established as a permanent museum of railroadi- ana.
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T h e f o l l o w in g outstanding edi torial by Mr. Jerry Ringhofer, Editor of the Daily Record-Gazette, Beaumont, California appeared in the May 25 issue. Your cults editor, visiting in the area, was so struck by it that she asked permission of Mr. Ringhofer to reprint it for our readers, which permission was gra ciously granted.. OUR 'NEW ROME' It was hard to believe, yet there it was on our United Press Interna tional teletype. We refer to a story out of San Francisco on the so-called First Church of Satan. After reading the story, we had a great deal to say, but pity and sorrow overwhelmed anger and disbelief as to the new depths to which our so-called civili zation has lowered itself. Here is the story: A well-proportioned brunette tip toed through a hushed room decorat ed with a stuffed rat, two crows and a skull. She took off her clothes and lay down on a leopard skin covering a mantle. All was ready for the bap tism of a child. Anton Szandor Lavey, who calls himself a sorcerer and the high priest of the First Church of Satan, baptized his gum-chewing 3-year-old daughter Tuesday night as a hooded organist played “ The Hymn to Sa tan.” The child, Zeena Galatea Lavey, sat quietly near the feet o f the naked woman who formed the altar for the anti-religious ceremony. Her father, who claims to have 250 followers in San Francisco and 5,000 throughout the world, was robed and wore a hood that bore the horns of Satan. He said the mystic ceremony was the first such baptism in history. “ I always felt it was wrong to consider a child is bom with black sin in his soul,” Lavey, 37, said as his 24-year-old blonde wife stood by. “ But that’s how the Christian church considers baptism. This is a baptism (Continued on Page 25)
But there was a lack in this million aire’s life—a void that stunt flying, deep-sea fishing and other pursuits could not fill. Blount found true satisfaction and purpose in living only after inviting Christ into his life. The Man from steamtown by JAMES R. ADAIR This unusual success story is the biography of a Christian business man, a dynamic personality with a powerful witness for his Lord.
224 pages; 40 illustrations including a full color frontispiece. $3.95 At Your Bookseller
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