As a child his mother told him the story of Jesus, and a gruesome picture of "The Slaughter of the Innocents" hung on the living-room wall, before which he stood and cried many a day; he took the story, as his mother did, as secular history.
Date (happened)
between 1905 and 1921
unresolved
- between 1905 and 1921
Place
Persons
Told / reported
- 14 June 1971
Sources
Source
- The Dweller on the Threshold ¶14 (So Mother told me the story when I was a child, and told me of a Jesus – I can see a picture now on the wall of the living room. It was “The Slaughter of the Innocents.” How Mother got it, I do not know, but many a day I stood before that picture and cri…)