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Playing Tricks With the Bible, Stories from the Bible have been told to children for thousands of years, but now there's a new twist: Rev. Weldon John(...)
Playing Tricks With the Bible, Stories from the Bible have been told to children for thousands of years, but now there's a new twist: Rev. Weldon John(...)

Playing Tricks With the Bible, Stories from the Bible have been told to children for thousands of years, but now there's a new twist: Rev. Weldon John(...)

Date3/20/1975
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Original Toronto Star caption: Playing Tricks With the Bible; Stories from the Bible have been told to children for thousands of years; but now there's a new twist: Rev. Weldon Johnston of Toronto is a ventriloquist as well as a minister; and he took Happy Harry; his version of Charlie McCarthy; to Oshawa for three days to tell Bible stories to children at the Rossland Road Free Methodist Church. The crowd yesterday - it's school break - beamed at Happy Harry and the magic tricks Johnston performed.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0021955F
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