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Zenith Times-DisPatch? Just a moment.
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Slug this "Lead all, article one."
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Revivalism came to Zenith last night.
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After six years of backwoods success,
Sister Sharon Falconer -
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F- A-L-C-O-N-E-R -
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faced a fractious,
overflowing, metropolitan crowd.
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Jim Lefferts. Uh, later, please.
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- "Metropolitan crowd."
- Um...
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Many came to jeer...
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but stayed to cheer.
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Sister Sharon tamed the Philistines
with a simple prayer.
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The big-city hicks swallowed the
chocolate-coated pill with hosannas.
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- Give me a start on that, would you?
- Yeah, yeah.
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But...
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if simple prayer was
the main attraction of revivalism...
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Sister's tent would soon be as empty
as the churches she claims she can fill.
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What... is a revival?
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Is it a church? Is it a religion?
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Or is it a circus sideshow
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complete with freaks, magic,
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and rabble-rousing?
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Why does a revival attract thousands?
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To see a miracle? To be saved from
a lifetime of sin in five minutes?
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To be entertained, cured, cuddled,
in quick, painless salvation?
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Zenith is the heart of the Bible Belt. This
is an age that likes noise and whoopee.