THE POWER OF PRAYER - Brammer Cecil, of Mt. Airy, North Carolina, was driving his truck through Laurens County carrying a heavy load of glass. When the glass shifted, Cecil’s truck overturned. Cecil was buried under many slabs of heavy glass. Pinned, cut, and bleeding, Cecil had no hope of being extracted from the cab of his truck. The Rev. J.S. Wetzel, of Century Methodist Church, was the first motorist to arrive on the scene. Rev. Wetzel tried and tried to remove the glass. Then he prayed to God for the strength to get the man out. Cecil was praying too. Then, that’s when another motorist, a resident of Toccoa showed up. With the young man’s help, Wetzel managed to free Cecil from the smashed truck. You see, the young man was no ordinary man. He had garnered world wide fame for his ability to lift heavy weights. That young man, you may have guessed, was none other than Paul Anderson, the reigning Olympic champion weightlifter - who was forever billed as the “Strongest Man in the World.” Augusta Chronicle, March 14, 1960.
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