Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reporters who were present at the arrival in Manhattan of Agnes Maude Royden, famed English evangelist, head of the London Guildhouse, were prepared to find a large woman with little conversation and a big smile. They found instead a small, mercurial, unbeautified, talkative lady, leaning on a chestnut stick. She answered their questions readily and with wit. The reporters then told Agnes Maude Royden that her prospective lectures in Boston and Chicago (sponsored by the Methodist Woman's Home Missionary Society) had been canceled because of rumors that she smoked cigarets and that she also favored companionate marriage...
...MOODY: A WORKER IN SOULS- Gamaliel Bradford-Doran ($3.50). "Are you a Christian?" This was Dwight Lyman Moody's habitual salute to those whose souls he wished to preserve for eternity. Gamaliel Bradford, wishing to preserve the heroic figure of the evangelist, asks a few questions in return. Since D. L. Moody is no longer alive to answer the questions, Author Bradford.must supply his own replies. A wise and searching biographer, he explains very credibly a person who, in an age of great preachers, Was perhaps the tallest and most mighty among them...
Married. The youngest son of Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday, Paul Thompson Sunday; to Mrs. Elene Herbert, of Chattanooga, Tenn.; at Tijuana, Mexico, to escape California's three-day marriage license...
...Buchman is a Christian evangelist so unusual in his practices that he has brought considerable obloquy upon himself (TIME, Oct. 18, Nov. 1). A graduate of Muhlenberg College and a Lutheran minister, he has discovered that ordinary church work fails to reach many nominal Christians. Neither are these people affected by the conventional tabernacle howlers. Aimee Semple McPherson, Dr. J. Frank Norris, William A. Sunday can reach great crowds, can excite many a soul to march up the sawdust trail to salvation. But the enduring effect of such theatrical evangelizing is always dubitable. More important, few of the hymn-singing...
Rolf McPherson, 14; divorced the man; fended for herself. In 1918 she set up as an evangelist in Los Angeles preaching what she called the "Four Square Gospel" and presuming to cure maladies by divine healing. She prospered; owns property worth approximately $1,000,000; is now coaching her daughter in the profession...