Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thereupon the elders sent to Kansas City for an evangelist of local renown, Rev. George Rider, 45. He swept down on Halley's Bluff with an oldfashioned, long-term revival meeting, organized a children's choir and a six-piece band, roared from the pulpit. Converts came flocking...
Married. Roberta Star Semple, 19, daughter of Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson and the late Missionary Robert Semple; and William Bradley Smyth, 23, purser of the S. S. President Wilson; in Singapore. Purser Smyth met Evangelist McPherson and her daughter at the beginning of their world tour (Jan. 20), was instructed to give them "special attention." He became Miss Semple's fiancé in Shanghai (Feb. 16). "It is a pure love match," said Evangelist McPherson, "I give it my blessing." Said Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, grandmother of the bride: "I got married when I was 15. Sister [Mrs. McPherson] went...
Exhorting a Boston audience, Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday predicted his own early death, crying: "I'm running in high all the time! I scorch downhill! . . . I've got Napoleon [who slept only four hours per night] backed off the boards, hanging on the ropes!" Then he said he desired that after his death his body should rest in a Boston churchyard. He roared: "Boy, I like the folks back here! ... I told Mrs. Sunday not to bury me in the ground, not to cremate me. I want to be put in a sepulchre...
Traveling under the name of "Mrs. Grant," Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson was discovered at Honolulu, where she purchased a Hula skirt and a book of instructions in Hula-Hulaing. Later she took ship for India. Said she: "I want to get close to the women of the East...
...never been vicious. And when he professed religion he was accepted as a good Methodist. In 1918 he was pardoned. Feudist times were passed ; the law had tamed the wilful mountaineers. Berea College and Lincoln Memorial University were providing them with modern culture. Curt Jett became an itinerant Methodist evangelist. He married, and entered Asbury College at Wilmore, Ky. He and his wife had trouble. They separated; he quit college and Methodism. He remarried and began studying for the Baptist ministry. Last week as he received his ministerial license at Union City, he was a typical mountain minister: tall...