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Unforgettable: When Sister Aimee Came to Town - Part 1
Her supposed affairs, there is really nothing to tell, its just the stuff of old ladies leaning on backyard fences. Plenty of gossip, but never a single thing anyone can put their finger on. As for the supposed story Milton Berle told in his 1974 autobiography of his two occasions of delight with her: One has to realize Milt was probably telling some sort of an cerebral cougar joke: 1--he is a comedian, that's what he does 2--She was 20 years his elder COUGAR 3--she was sick half the time flat on her back or out of the country on a trip in 1930, 4--yes he tapped that without anyone else noticing, including his public dinner out with her, a--her chauffeur, who supposedly drove Milt to her, twice, but never said anything b--the Milt claimed charity benefit he worked with her at no one could locate on her calendar, or anyone else ever remembered her attending 5--the apartment by the sea daughter Roberta said she never had 6--Crosses yes, crucifixes as Milt described, unlike Catholics she was not comfortable with the dead man hanging off of them. Period Photographs show her with crosses, not crucifixes. If one was used, it was part of the larger illustration when Jesus executed by the Romans. Hers was a glorious resurrected Jesus Christ. 7--Milt waited until she was 40 years dead until he told his tale. An earlier book he published in 1939 has no such claim. 8--a gentleman never Kisses and tells, while Milt told even of women he never kissed. 9--there was more than "a handful of women," if the far more numerous allegations about Milt and his mother are even fractionally true there, there is little doubt the promiscuous Milt remembers a woman whose name is phonetically enounced "Amy," but it was not of the McPherson variety. Anyway, I thank you for reminding us of all the work she did in helping, healing all those many multitudes of people..— February 4, 2013 6:46 p.m.
Unforgettable: When Sister Aimee Came to Town - Part 1
"The healings present a monstrous obstacle to scientific historiography. If events transpired as newspapers, letters, and testimonials say they did, then Aimee Semple McPherson's healing ministry was miraculous. ...The documentation is overwhelming: very sick people came to Sister Aimee by the tens of thousands, blind, deaf, paralyzed. Many were healed some temporarily, some forever. She would point to heaven, to Christ the Great Healer and take no credit for the results." Daniel Mark Epstein (p111 Sister Aimee: The Life of Aimee Semple McPherson). McPherson was invited back to town after town. Good luck trying to top that, snake oil salespeople— February 4, 2013 6:38 p.m.