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9 Mount Pleasant Street Biddeford, Maine July 2nd 1946
Dear Mr. Oram: Thanks for "Time Magazine" June 23rd. It was wonderful to behold... Please keep me informed of other and further items on same topic.- God be with you, always! M.L. Dixon
Article: Boston Globe, July-1-46 Gandhi Escapes Injury as Train Hits Boulder Poona, India. June 30 (AP)-- Mohandas K. Gandhi escaped injury today when his intimated, had been placed on the track in an attempt against his life.
The accident occurred 68 miles from Poona as Ghandi was en route home from a British Cabinet Mission meeting in New Delhi. No one in Gandhi's party was injured. The engine was damaged and the train was over six hours late. "We came very near death." Gandhi said. "I should never have reached here today but for the grace of God. I was told that big boulders had been placed on the track.
TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOUR CHARGE!!
Bible verses: St. Luke 6
16 No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed: but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light. 17... 18 Take heed therefore how ye hear: "for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have. 19... 21 And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.