Word: edman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just after dinner one evening last week, balding, spectacled President Victor Raymond Edman of Illinois' Wheaton College rose to begin a regular session of the Evangelistic Week that traditionally begins each term. Stepping up to the microphones in the brightly lit, rectangular auditorium of Pierce Memorial Chapel, he asked if any student would "like to give a word of testimony or praise on the blessings of this week...
President Edman was not surprised when several students trooped up to the rostrum. Such impromptu declarations are not unusual at Wheaton, a little (1,500 students), nondenominational college which still bears the stamp of its strict fundamentalist heritage: no movies, smoking, card-playing, dancing or drinking, a 10 p.m. weekday curfew. But as the first students finished speaking, a surge of confessional fervor swept through the auditorium...
...listeners sat with their heads in their hands. Patiently through almost all of it waited the Rev. Edwin Johnson of Seattle's First Mission Covenant Church, who, as leader of the Evangelistic Week, had been scheduled to address the group the night it all began. At last, President Edman gave him his chance at the microphone. "We've seen a probing of the heart today such as we've never seen before," said Johnson...