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    1. [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] Brown County: Preacher Egged in Lucas Ridge Church
    2. Randi Richardson
    3. New York (NY) Daily People, May 24, 1906, p. 1. WITH ROTTEN EGGS THEY DEFEND THE BIBLE Nashville, Indiana, May 23-The Rev. George Porter, who has been holding revival meetings in various country churches for some time, will hereafter give the little church in Lucas Ridge, south of the city, a wide berth. Porter's sermons and talks led to an impression in the neighborhood that he was far from orthodox. This impression became a conviction when, in his sermon in the Lucas Ridge Church he remarked, "The Bible has become a dead letter." As he made this statement, several persons in the congregation quietly left the building. Porter went on with his sermon but in a few minutes a lot of stale eggs were thrown through an open window and landed on the preacher. Another lot followed the first, and then Porter ran from the pulpit, darted through a window on the opposite side of the church and started down the road on a run. A large number of the congregation chased the minister for nearly a mile, but he finally got away from his pursuers in the darkness.

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