Word: evangelistic
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...staked out in the Stevenson camp (to the disgust of Fellow Tennessean Estes Kefauver), was generally acceptable to both North and South because of his "local-level" approach to school desegregation. Far more important than these attitudes was the fact that Boy Wonder Clement is a golden-throated political evangelist with an inexhaustible gift for fervent oratory (see box) and surefire TV appeal...
...Rations. Evangelist Graham urged Daws Trotman to join his Fort Worth crusade in 1951, and asked him how to keep people to their religious conviction once they had made their "decisions" and signed their pledge cards. Nav igator Trotman organized the system of Biblical instruction courses-"B Rations" (for Bible) of verses to be memorized. Graham and his team have used them ever since as the core of their system for following up Graham "converts" (TiME...
...died Dawson Trotman, "the Navigator," light and power of a movement that echoes the words of the Scriptures around the world. Billy Graham interrupted his evangelist crusade in Oklahoma City to "preach his funeral" at Colorado Springs, Colo., and devoted his week's Hour of Decision broadcast to him. Radio Preacher Charles E. Fullen did the same with his Old Fashioned Revival Hour...
...Strange Whistling. The Presbyterian mission named her "Alice" and duly sent a native evangelist back to Kasomo with her, and the villagers began to flock to her hut. Soon she had another word from God. There were two books, He told her, one for whites and one for blacks, and the black book was the right one. Once again Lenshina appeared in Lubwa, this time to demand the use of the mission church to preach in. When the missionaries turned her down, she went back to her village with the story that the missionaries had stolen her African book...
...Talents. In Providence, the Jour nal carried a classified ad: "PREACHER-EVANGELIST, former thief and alcoholic, desires employment. Experienced truck driver. Will consider any honest labor...