Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to previous newspaper announcements, this was to be the funeral of a certain neighbor. The evangelist chanted no eulogy over the coffin. The dead man had committed every sin, he screamed. He was wicked, he had not been ready when the trump of Gabriel called him to judgment, and therefore he would go to eternal torment...
...Evangelist W. F. Fisher, who staged the mock funeral, has made a specialty of this sort of thing. Once he saved 50 in one night. At Waterbury only six were saved...
...voice strained raw, his fists milling, a Negro evangelist towered above his wailing audience in the little Mount Olive (African Methodist Episcopal) Zion Church at Waterbury, Conn., last week. He rose to his toes and menaced the moaning Negroes with all the horrors of hell. Hysterical cries burst from the listeners: "That's right, preacher! Go on and preach, man! Amen, amen...
These measures failing, the Knights agreed to prosecute certain men and organizations responsible. Last week two actions for criminal libel resulted in the conviction of a Savannah evangelist and the indictment of a Christian minister in New Jersey...
...father, a lumber dealer, were "converted" by a secretary from Des Moines when the younger Mott was 14 years old. He was graduated from Cornell University* in 1888 and the same year he went to Mount Hermon, Mass., attended the Bible study class of Dwight L. Moody, uneducated, forceful evangelist. Since that time Dr. Mott has had an unbroken connection with the Y. M. C. A. More than any other individual he is credited with bringing the Y. M. C. A. to its present $200,000,000 status, and to a place in world esteem which makes it, unlike many...