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Source: Blue Grass Blade Source type: newspaper Document type: letter to the editor Document title: “Bullet vs. Prayer” Author(s): Mansfield, T. B. City of publication: Lexington, Kentucky Date of publication: 27 October 1901 Volume number: 10 Issue number: 36 Pagination: [3] |
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| Mansfield, T. B. “Bullet vs. Prayer.” Blue Grass Blade 27 Oct. 1901 v10n36: p. [3]. |
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| T. B. Mansfield; William McKinley (recovery: role of prayer); William McKinley (death: religious response). |
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| T. B. Mansfield; Charles C. Moore. |
| Notes |
| The date of publication provided on the newspaper’s front page is October 27, E. M. 301. |
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Bullet vs. Prayer
Abilene, Texas, 9, 12, 1901.
Mr. C. C. Moore. Dear Sir:
Your paper of Sept. 29, at hand, and I have absorbed
about everything in it. An article on the first page (Prayer for wounded President)
called to mind a conversation I had with a minister shortly after the President’s
death. I asked him if the Bible did not teach that the prayer of the righteous
availed much and he said: “Yes”. [sic] I then asked him why our President’s
life was not saved when nearly all of our most righteous citizens were praying
that he might live, and this minister, to my surprise, said “The bullet went
in the wrong place.”
Yours in haste,
DR. T. B. MANSFIELD.