Emphasis Preaching Journal

(P, C)
A recent motion picture, The Elephant Man, tells the heart-rending story of a human genetic accident, Mr. John Merrick, who lived in England in the latter part of the nineteenth century. He was raised as a sideshow freak, repulsive to look at and of value to his owner only for the money earned from his display. He was treated as subhuman, incapable of civilized human development.