During an evening service titled “Stop, Look and Listen” in the spare fellowship hall of Mt. Hebron Missionary Baptist Church, after dire Scripture readings about plagues and last days, the minister rose before a sign that proclaimed, “Jesus saves!”

“I wanted to come by today to keep encouraging you to hold on,” the Rev. Max A. Miller Jr., 52, told the three dozen in attendance. “Stand up for what is right.”

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