Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dolefully Rev. Major J. ("Father") Divine, evangelist to whites and Negroes in New York's lusty Harlem (TIME, Dec. 25, 1933 et seq.), admitted: "No, I am not God, but millions of people think I am and I'd like them to believe...
...Paterson, N. J. evangelist had a letter last week from his missionary son in China. John C. Stam wrote of the menace of Communist-bandits and enclosed a poem which, he said, expressed his own feelings about them...
...Moore was as Throttlebottom, he is funnier still as "Moonface" Mooney, Public Enemy No. 13. Disguised as a parson, he is forced to flee the country on an ocean liner, soon attaches himself to Billy Crocker (Gaxton), a playboy following a long-lost sweetheart, and Reno Sweeney (Merman), an evangelist turned night club operator...
...late, great Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody founded Mount Hermon in 1881, two years after its sister, Northfield Seminary for Girls. There in an austere atmosphere thousands of boys and girls from pious homes have received a Christian, practical education, with two hours work per day on farm or in shop for rich and poor alike. To Northfield, too, have gone thousands of men and women for its famed summer conferences at which they refreshed their spiritual roots. There in 1926 went young Elliott Speer, fresh from a term as chaplain at LaFayette, to succeed Founder Moody's son William...
...send out Modernist missionaries. The Baptists favored a progressive social program, temperance education, Prohibition legislation, Sabbath observance, a "clean-up" of radio programs. They commended pledges to be signed by individuals against joining any aggressive war. Church of God. In Jamaica, N. Y. last week arrived a bluff, hearty evangelist named Ambrose Jessup Tomlinson. Bishop and Overseer of the Church of God which claims 500,000 followers, 2,000 churches throughout the U. S. Once a colporteur of tracts in the North Carolina mountains, Bishop Tomlinson says he was driven out by his enemies amid shots and showers of stones...