Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married, Aimee Semple McPherson, 38, "FourSquare Gospel" evangelist; and her 250-lb. Angelus Temple Voice Instructor David Hutton, 30; at Yuma. Ariz.. after an airplane trip from Los Angeles. Present were her son Rolf and his wife, recently married. Absent was Mrs. Minnie ("Ma") Kennedy, estranged from her "lonely little sparrow." It was the bride's third marriage. Her first two: Robert Semple; Harold McPherson...
...Jeffers, 33, Baptist evangelist, had arrived in Jonesboro for a series of meetings. Short, bespectacled, he was a rousing, tingling exhorter. It was known that he had been shot at twice last spring when he was lambasting St. Louis in a campaign to clean up gambling. Jones- boro was glad to have him back, especially when he went at once to shout defiance at his rival, Rev. Dow H. Heard, 35. Redhaired, rangy, lantern-jawed, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Evangelist Jeffers, Jonesboro believed, was trying to oust Mr. Heard from his pastorate. He had accused Mr. Heard...
...Evangelist Jeffers and 500 of his supporters followed to the courthouse. There they began singing hymns. Mayor Herbert J. Bosler ordered them to stop. ''Then let us pray for a minute!" cried Evangelist Jeffers. He knelt on the courthouse steps, prayed for four minutes. Time was up, said the Mayor. "May God strike the Mayor dead!" shouted the Evangelist, as his followers rained blows on Mayor Bosler and Chief of Police W. C. Craig. Deputies broke up the meeting...
...Oscar Stanway, vicar of Claygate, Surrey: "Confetti-throwing is meaningless and messy!" Even worse, said he, is the prevalent practice of throwing imitation rose petals: they show up much more. "Never heard an argument in favor of confetti," said Rev. F. L. H. Millard of St. John-the-Evangelist, North Brixton, London. It was all right, he thought, to throw real flowers (an old village custom), because young ladies liked to pick them up to tuck under their pillows, and old ladies could press them in books...
...Other Book-of-the-Month: SUSAN SPRAY-Sheila Kaye-Smith-Harper ($2.50). It is the story of a woman evangelist, born of poor farmer tenants in rural England. At the age of four she sees God in a fiery bush, runs home screaming to her mother; for the rest of her life she continues to embroider on the tale, sincerely coming to believe it herself. Through the course of her life she marries three times, manages to combine the flesh & the spirit so charmingly, so successfully that she becomes famed...