Word: evangelisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course of lectures before the Royal Institution, which invites its annual speakers to discourse "in a style adapted to a juvenile auditory." Sir James took for granted almost no qualifications of his audience beyond ability to understand plain English. Highlights of the indisputable universe as presented by Evangel Jeans...
...revived Sinclair EPIC, rising from the ashes of the Democratic convention, drove his opponents to fresh despair while his naïve economic reasoning infuriated them. To them, there seemed to be no effective way of bridling this evangel of nonsense. What Mr. Sinclair proposed to do, as they saw it, was to plant a system of Red State-ownership in California, expand it, without limit, until it crushed private enterprise. EPIC, Mr. Sinclair pointed out, could also stand for "End Poverty In Civilization...
...first chapel car called "Chapel Car Evangel" was built in 1891 and used in new towns along the railroads in the West. In 1892 we built our second chapel car, "Emmanuel," and sent it to the Pacific Coast. It was later brought back to Colorado for service. In 1894 we built our third chapel car, "Glad Tidings," with money given by Mr. William Hills, of New York, in honor of his wife, and it operated in the Southwest. In 1895 we built our fourth chapel car, "Good-will," given by Baptists in general who were inspired by the generosity...
Married, Minnie A. ("Ma") Kennedy, 57, evangelist mother of Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson; and Rev. J. E. Hudson, onetime Manhattan businessman; by Rev. J. G. Gay, vice president of the bride's Everlasting Gospel Evangel Church (Olympia, Wash.); on the shores of artificial Lake Sacajawea, Wash. Said she: "The ceremony was performed in God's Great Outdoors . . . with His birds' songs in place of an orchestra." Later on newshawks found "Billy Sunday," her favorite horse, missing from her stables, concluded that she had galloped away on her honeymoon...
Every Sunday morning Manhattan converts assemble at the Ritz or Park Lane resolved upon "unfurling the Flag of Universal Peace," "the diffusion of the ideals of Love, Mercy, Justice, Right and Liberty," "the declaration of the Evangel of Happiness...