Word: evangelistic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Representative Upshaw is an evangelist by profession. During the Summer it is his custom to conduct "revivals" in one or more of the Washington churches. He believes that "common sense should be a big part in religion" and has been known to adjure the male members of his audience to "take off your coat if there are no holes in your shirt. So long as the weather remains warm I intend that no one shall suffer...
...great experiment is ended. Mankind, wandering away from the Evangelist, has found desolation and death. More than one promise and more than one threat has been fulfilled. Now in our desperation nothing is left to us but the hope of Thy return. If Thou dost not come to arouse the sleepers in the mire of our Inferno it is a sign that the chastisement for our betrayal seems to Thee still too light and that Thou dost not want to change the order of Thy laws. And Thy will be done now and always in Heaven and on earth...
Thirty years ago, a young Swedish priest, Nathan Soderblom, visited Dwight L. Moody, evangelist, at Northfield, Mass. Last week he came again, Archbishop of Upsala and Primate of the Church of Sweden, to visit America...
...Billy " Sunday, evangelist: " Attendance at my Niagara Falls revivals was sparse. I gave the officials in charge a 'verbal lambasting.' Then 7,000 crowded the tabernacle...
Miss Christabel Pankhurst, evangelist: "At a Presbyterian conference, said I: 'Because of the immorality of the fiction of our day I do not see how girls have the slightest chance to remain good...