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...last week when told that the birth of her seventh child had caused public interest. "Maybe it has," she gloomed, "but it hasn't caused no excitement around this house. Just more work." What interested those outside the Smith household: Mr. Smith, a former undertaker and currently an evangelist preacher, claims to be 101 years old. His son Dallas, the latest arrival, is the youngest of a family begun when Smith was in his late eighties. Father Smith's explanation of his undiminished virility: "I always eat plenty, and I've never done any hard work...
...dingy Providence ballroom last Saturday night, "Little David" Walker terrified a crowd of 1200 people with his description of "what Providence would be like after Jesus comes." The chubby, sixteen-year-old evangelist has been stumping for salvation since the age of nine when he had "a personal conversation with Jesus." He has hit London, Paris and Mexico in this crusade. Last night Little David's pastures were not so green, but his theatrics and psychological programming made up for the decor...
Without introduction or flourish, Little David himself suddenly appeared on the platform. Scrubbed and neat in a light gray suit, he looked more like an Eagle Scout than an evangelist. But he was up to fever heat in a few minutes and began screaming out passages from Matthew about the end of the world...
...voice that answers at DI 0614 belongs to a short, 70-year-old woman with straggly grey hair, restless hands and a tranquil face. For the past four years, Julia A. Shelhamer, widow of a Free Methodist evangelist, has lived in her mission-a row-house in one of Washington's worst slums. With the help of two assistant ministers, their wives and her own 77-year-old sister, she conducts church and Sunday school services, plus a full schedule of community activities, for a congregation that is about half Negro, half white. "Sometimes," she says, "there are just...
...Evangelist Billy Graham suggested that "Mr. Truman and Mr. Attlee . . . hold a little prayer meeting, telling God 'We don't know where to turn...