Word: evangelistic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hammond, Ind., one day last week and again in Chicago, a 16-year-old girl tried out as a professional evangelist. She was Roberta Star Semple, daughter of Aimee Kennedy Semple McPherson, prosperous Baptist evangelist of Los Angeles. Roberta was beginning her career at a younger age than did her mother. But she had her mother to help...
...McPherson, born near Ingersoll, Ontario, in 1890, ran away from home in 1907 (at 17) to accompany one Robert Semple, evangelist. They barnstormed the tabernacles of Canada, China, Australia. The man died in 1911-a month before Roberta Star Semple was born. The widow pet-named her baby "Star of the East...
Uldine Utley, pupil of Evangelist Aimée Semple McPherson and protégée of Calvary Bapist's Pastor John Roach Straton, had brought this abnormality into the congregation last January. Like prosperous Mrs. McPherson the stripling girl has the knack of exciting Pentecostal frenzies from her auditors, of throwing them into thaumaturgic fits. Warren Badenock Straton, 19, third son of the pastor (the sons are Rev. Hillyer Hawthorne, John Charles, Warren Badenock, George Douglas) had had his "soul saved" in this fashion. The Monday night Bible class had sought "saving" to such an extent that...
Gypsy Smith's evangelistic method is simple. He gets the cockles of the audiences' hearts working emotionally with a few hymns and one of his famed talks ("From Gypsy Tent to-Pulpit" or "Three Years with the Boys in France"); then he asks all who "intelligently feel the need of Jesus, and mean to give themselves to Him, body, soul and spirit," to rise in prayer. He does not make them trample moldy sawdust before the public gaze. His converts are led into the "inquiry room" where pastors and personal workers act as nurses after a surgical operation...
...college with automobiles, said: "Rather than do that I would buy 30 cents' worth of powder and blow him up. It would be fairer to the boy." Much more he said, called Judge Ben Lindsey's trial marriage proposal (TIME, Jan. 24) "absurd idea," said of famed evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson that she "crossed the entire country capitalizing her notoriety...