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Messages of Faith and Fame Amid Drink and Boxing Names
A collection of religious verse laments drink and salvation from Katherine Byars of Mt. Hope Alabama urging abstinence and prayer. A boarding plane lyric mocks judgment day while Mattie Anders questions baggage for heaven. A London boxing fan consults a priest over naming his son John Stephen Cassius Muhammad Ali Clay Porter ending with a christening compromise.
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London
Richie Porter
John Stephen Cassius Muhammad Ali Clay Porter
St. William of York
Crosby
Lancashire
Louis Rotherham
Muhammad Ali
Clay
Renee
Porter
John Stephen Cassius Marcellus Porter
Father Rother