Word: evangelistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American woman evangelist who stayed at her post when the Japanese occupied that region sheltered several hundred Chinese women in the mission compound. The sex-hungry Japanese told her to turn the women over "for protection against bandits." She refused and kept the soldiers out of the compound, even though she herself was beaten and stripped. When the Japanese retired after a month's occupation, she was the first to follow them on the retreat. She tucked a basket of medical supplies under her arm and went up into the hill villages, dressing wounds at every place she stopped...
...difficult to say enough about "Cabin in the Sky." And whatever you say, you can't recapture in words the magic of appeal, the imaginative realism of its political journeys to the evangelist's dire threat of Hell and glowing promise of the Pearly Gates. It may be that it has succeeded in finding the spirit of the Negro more truly than ever before; if it is has at all fallen short of this ideal, it suffers none as pure entertainment. It's worth pawing your roommate's dress clothes and flunking an hour exam to see "Cabin...
...Army chaplain in World War I, Parson Spence discouraged crapshooting in camp by rolling sevens himself. As an evangelist, he modernized his revival technique; instead of bringing sinners to the revival, he took the revival to them from house to house. He learned to "tell whom I was hitting by the way they looked over their shoulders to see if the family skeletons were sitting behind them...
Keynoter of the Mission is the world's No. 1 missionary, lean, fervid, greying E. (for Eli) Stanley Jones, who humbly calls himself "evangelist to the high castes of India." Dr. Jones went to India as a Methodist missionary in 1907, has since converted many a Brahman, written nine books (best-known: The Christ of the Indian Road, with sales past the 600,000 mark), founded at Lucknow the first Christian Ashram (from an Indian word meaning "a forest colony for spiritual fellowship and meditation"). In Indian costume-a long white cloak, tight trousers, sandals-Dr. Jones last summer...
Last week Wendell Willkie went forth as an evangelist. For weeks he had smoldered in Rushville, Ind., reading reports that his campaign had stalled. The only answer he got to his daily denunciation of Franklin Roosevelt was an aloof and lofty silence. Mr. Willkie wanted to fight; Mr. Roosevelt made it plain that he was too busy to campaign. Angry, steam up, Mr. Willkie finally climbed aboard his campaign train...