Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Angeles, haven of the spiritually restless, has a mystery. Its famed and wealthy evangelist, builder and owner of the $1,000,000 Angelus Temple, Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson, has disappeared. No one can account for her. All that is known is that three weeks ago she entered a beach hotel and reappeared in a bathing suit variously described as dark green or dark blue. She was a well formed woman and attracted many an idle eye. High-piled, unshorn dark hair; full, wide lips a little irregular; unusually white teeth; a generous nose; eager, long-lashed eyes-her description...
...Whether it be Cabinet officers, a United States Senator, a Methodist Bishop, a Baptist evangelist, a Presbyterian doctor of divinity, the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Pope of Rome, I do not propose to allow any man to declare, without my indignant protest, that the stalwart, God-fearing men and praying handmaidens of God who fought for prohibition on their knees as well as at the ballot box are given to the habitual practice of misrepresentation...
Some 41 years ago Evangelist Ufford, in the leafy village square of Westwood, Mass., was exhorting the villagers with much gusto yet with some despair, for on the outskirts of the throng he noted many youths and maidens giggling and cutting up. How frail are their ties to the Church, reflected the young Methodist, even as he labored and prayed. They were drifting. . . sinking. . . . Phrases floated across his thoughts, took form. Later, at home, in half an hour he composed his hymn, which has been translated into nearly all major languages. Once in a tour of the world, he dramatically...
Engaged. Miss Constance Moody, granddaughter of famed evangelist Dwight L. Moody, daughter of the noted head of the Northfield Seminary for Girls and the Mount Hermon School for Boys; to one William Waldo Case of Farmington, Conn...
...evangelist-one David S. Kidd-pleaded with the woman to forsake sin. In reply she asked facetiously for liquor. He gave her water, read the Bible to her, persuaded her to repent. She returned to the home of her father-one W. C. Byrne, Toronto millionaire. Recently the girl, having inherited all her father's money, died in Jasper, Fla. To Mr. Kidd-now called the Rev. David S. Kidd-Byrne-she left $36,000,000. (Such is the substance of a story broadcast last week by the United Press...