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Exhorting a Boston audience, Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday predicted his own early death, crying: "I'm running in high all the time! I scorch downhill! . . . I've got Napoleon [who slept only four hours per night] backed off the boards, hanging on the ropes!" Then he said he desired that after his death his body should rest in a Boston churchyard. He roared: "Boy, I like the folks back here! ... I told Mrs. Sunday not to bury me in the ground, not to cremate me. I want to be put in a sepulchre...
Traveling under the name of "Mrs. Grant," Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson was discovered at Honolulu, where she purchased a Hula skirt and a book of instructions in Hula-Hulaing. Later she took ship for India. Said she: "I want to get close to the women of the East...
...never been vicious. And when he professed religion he was accepted as a good Methodist. In 1918 he was pardoned. Feudist times were passed ; the law had tamed the wilful mountaineers. Berea College and Lincoln Memorial University were providing them with modern culture. Curt Jett became an itinerant Methodist evangelist. He married, and entered Asbury College at Wilmore, Ky. He and his wife had trouble. They separated; he quit college and Methodism. He remarried and began studying for the Baptist ministry. Last week as he received his ministerial license at Union City, he was a typical mountain minister: tall...
told a group of newshawks: "If I were God I would have come down and cuffed that man [Sinclair] Lewis - he'd never have gone to Stockholm to collect that Nobel award!" Observers suspected that if Evangelist Sunday were God he would have cuffed Author Lewis much more severely on the occasion of his defying the Deity from the pulpit of a church (TIME...
Most remarkable, though less authentic, is the refusal of the infant St. Nicholas to take his milk on Fridays, though the palm must be awarded to St. John the Evangelist whose pre-natal obeisance to Christ is a commonplace of medieval legendry...