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BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY,DECEMBER 25, 1969 10CENTS * 40 PAGES-3 SECTIONS*
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JTpe was born in an obscure village, (be child of a peasant woman.
Ha grew up in still another, village, where he worked in a carpentkr ’
\sKop until he was thirty. Then for three years he was an itinerant „
preacher, He never .wrote a book. He never held an o ffice. He never
had a family or owned a house. He didn't go to college. He never
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He .never traveled two hundred miles from the place where he was
f born. He did none of the things one usually associates with greatness.
He had no credentials but himself. He was only thirty-three when the X
tide of public opinion turned against him. His friends ran away. . \*.
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He was turned over to hif enemies and went through the mockery of
a trial. He was nailed to a cross between two thieves. While he was
dying, his executioners gambled for his clothing, the only property he
had on earth. When he was dead, he Was laid in a borrowed grave
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through the pity of a friend.
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Nineteen centuries have come and gone, and today he is the central
figure of the human race and the leader of mankind’s progress: All
the armies that ever marched, all the. navies that ever'sailed, all the
parliaments that ever sat, all the kings that ever reigned, put together,
have not affected the life of man on this earth as. much as that
One Solitary Lift. —Traditional
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