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Since then many voices have been raised against the Darwin theory, many an evangelist has shouted maledictions against the memory and followers of the Great Evolutionist. In the U. S., as everyone knows, the peak of the Darwin controversy was the famed Dayton, Tenn., debate between Attorney Clarence Darrow and the late great William Jennings Bryan (TIME, July...
...Indianapolis, last week, the apostolic, frock-coated figure of Evangelist Paul Rader, onetime prize fighter, dominated a group of determined antievolutionists. Defenders of the Christian Faith, they called themselves. Their plan: "To establish 48 nerve centres [one in each State] for the suppression of pernicious teachings that are undermining the very moral fibre of our youth...
According to previous newspaper announcements, this was to be the funeral of a certain neighbor. The evangelist chanted no eulogy over the coffin. The dead man had committed every sin, he screamed. He was wicked, he had not been ready when the trump of Gabriel called him to judgment, and therefore he would go to eternal torment...
...Evangelist W. F. Fisher, who staged the mock funeral, has made a specialty of this sort of thing. Once he saved 50 in one night. At Waterbury only six were saved...
...voice strained raw, his fists milling, a Negro evangelist towered above his wailing audience in the little Mount Olive (African Methodist Episcopal) Zion Church at Waterbury, Conn., last week. He rose to his toes and menaced the moaning Negroes with all the horrors of hell. Hysterical cries burst from the listeners: "That's right, preacher! Go on and preach, man! Amen, amen...