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Their leader, tall, shock-haired Cline Paden, 30, from Lubbock, Texas, had gone to Italy in 1947 and found the country "sorely in need of material and spiritual help." With his brother Harold and eleven helpers, Evangelist Paden concentrated on the town of Frascati, four miles from the Pope's summer residence at Castel Gandolfo...
...voice from the sound-truck may have told you as it passed on the street, when other folks were out getting drunk on New Year's Eve, 6,000 of the faithful turned up at Mechanics Hall to hear Billy Graham speak. The evangelist who had such success in Los Angeles is apparently duplicating it here in Boston, where he has been appearing at Mechanics Hall and the Opera House...
...quiet and attentive to the sermon, unlike some revival audiences this writer has seen in the South. Some excerpts from the sermon: "It was the common people that Christ appealed to. And it's the common people that Communism is appealing to. Communism is inspired by the Devil . . . Another evangelist once told me, 'Billy, the spiritual mentality of our people is only 12 years old, remember that. We need to talk the language of the streets today.' . . . But I tell you that a revival will come, I tell you, brother, it will come when the first bomb is dropped...
Pupil & Master. Ernest Manning's blending of religion and politics had its beginning one Sunday afternoon 23 years ago. He was a Saskatchewan farm boy when he first heard a broadcast from Calgary by William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart, radio evangelist. Two years later, after listening to Aberhart every Sunday, he set out for Calgary to enroll as a student at Aberhart's Prophetic Bible Institute...
...clash of life has transformed many things for Old Campaigner Pugmire. William Booth had a horror of holier-than-thou, middle-class respectability. A fear of respectability is reflected by the commissioner, who is the true son of an evangelist, even if he was never a rousing evangelist himself. The legend "Blood & Fire" on the army's flag has lost some of its meaning. The army, taking on respectability in spite of itself, has acquired property, a standing in the community, a connection with Community Chests, advisory committees of distinguished citizens. It has lost some of its old, hoarse...