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church board fired the music director/youth minister without DeHaan's approval. DeHaan received approval of the congregation to rehire the minister and fire the board members. But when six men took legal action and obtained an injunction against DeHaan, he resigned. His health was also poor at the time; he had suffered his first heart attack in 1936 and another in 1938.
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devotional booklet to the sermons already being sent to listeners. DeHaan was not only an able Bible teacher but an astute businessman whom other broadcasters consulted to make their own operations more efficient. After Radio Bible Class dedicated a new building in 1958, DeHaan told an associate,
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hospital, where he later wrote he "was born again of the Spirit". DeHaan said he had told God, "Spare my life and I'll serve You." Afterward, when a grateful patient presented DeHaan with a bottle of liquor, he emptied it down the drain. In the early spring of 1922, he returned home one day from
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Although he had been reared in a devout home and was a regular churchgoer, DeHaan acquired "a rather stout appetite for alcohol" during his years of medical practice. In
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DeHaan refused offers of honorary degrees, preferring to have only the M.D. after his name. He kept up with medical advances, offered medical advice in some of his messages and books, and once saved the life of a woman whose
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