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Charles Prince: Martyr for His Faith?

On Saturday evening, August 17, 1985, the Reverend Charles Prince, a forty-seven-year-old evangelist from Canton, North Carolina, was attending the final night of a three-day church meeting, prior to the annual homecoming that was to be held on Sunday, at the Apostolic Church of God of the Lord Jesus, near Greeneville, Tennessee. The church is an extreme form of Pentecostal/Holiness, known as the "snake-handlers," people who believe in following the signs as dictated in the Bible. Other passages are used to give justification to their beliefs such as Acts 28, which tells of Paul being bitten by a viper and escaping unharmed. Another ritual which is frequently performed that is not one of the "five Bible signs" is "fire-handling." Church members invoke the following biblical passages in order to sanction their use of fire in religious services: "When thou walkest through fire, thou shall not be burned: neither shall the flames kindle upon thee;" Isaiah 43:2. "Faith quenched the violence of fire." Hebrews 11:34. Several other verses are used with Daniel 3:30-27 which reports the release of Shadrach,