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Blackman had brought news from Kansas City.
Before his departure, a group of his friends, the Reverend Stidger among them, had given him a luncheon, and Stidger had seen advance sheets of Elmer Gantry.
He was outraged by the book and announced that he had discovered fifty technical errors in its account of church practices.
L. M. Birkhead challenged him to name one and he was silent.
But his rancor did not cease, and presently, on March 13, when he preached a sermon on the text, `` And Ben-hadad Was Drunk '', he told his congregation how disappointed he was in Mr. Lewis, how he regretted having had him in his house, and how he should have been warned by the fact that the novelist was drunk all the time that he was working on the book.
But that sermon, like those of hundreds of other ministers, was yet to be delivered.

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