Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into old First Baptist Church at Easton, Md. one night last week crowded 600 fervent Baptists for the wind-up of Rev. Dr. C. Thomas Brookshire's ten-day campaign. Evangelist Brookshire retired to put on rubber boots, rubber apron for the baptismal service. His pulpit was moved aside. A section of flooring was taken up to expose a waist-deep tank of water. Evangelist Brookshire stepped in. A-a-a-men! A-a-a-men! cried the congregation. Two girls, 12 and 16, approached. Praying loudly, he helped them down, doused them in the tank. Then followed...
...Suddenly Evangelist Brookshire turned pale, toppled forward into the water. Quickly Electrician Dean dragged him up, stretched him out on the platform. An hour later, despite the efforts of a fire department crew with a resuscitator, Evangelist Brookshire was pronounced dead, of drowning during a heart attack...
...team of 20 missionaries, sponsored by no less than 84 different denominational boards, set out last September for a tour of 29 major U.S. cities. Everywhere, audiences crowded upon them-a total last week of 300,000 people. Heading the team were Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, famed as an evangelist to high caste Hindus and author of Christ of the Indian Road, and Hankow's Bishop Logan Herbert Roots, able and deeply beloved churchman. Potent speakers have also been President Herman Chen-en Liu of Shanghai University, whose grandfather became a Christian: well-poised Miss Wu, whom all China...
Died. George Marquis Sunday, 40, son of famed Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday; of injuries suffered last fortnight when he jumped or fell from a window of his fourth-floor apartment; in San Francisco...
...plant the cross of Jesus alongside the Blue Eagle of the NRA," Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton signed a contract to appear in vaudeville on Broadway. Said she: "In debating with myself I found my flesh shrinking from the misunderstanding of motives which might be focused upon me, but when I consider what Christ would do were He here upon earth, there was no other answer than His own word: 'I come not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.' It is not as an actress that I shall go before the footlights. My purpose will...