Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the 2,300 men and women in the U. S. who run private secondary schools, unique is the position of Elliott Speer, 32, Princeton 1920; son of famed Evangelist Robert Elliott Speer. He not only conducts the largest private secondary institution in the land but as President of Northfield Schools (enrollment: 1,230) he heads two schools-Mount Hermon School for boys and Northfield Seminary for girls. These seats of learning face each other across five miles of wooded hills, separated by the Connecticut river near Northfield, one mile from the northern boundary of Massachusetts...
Fifty years ago these schools were founded by Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody as a place where disadvantaged boys and girls might receive a preparatory education at small cost. As the institution has progressed and expanded it has lost much of its early religious flavor. It now likes to be known as a purely educational institution, being at pains to make clear that the celebrated annual Northfield Religious Conferences are merely held on the school grounds during vacations, are not part of the school year. Northfield being needy and this its semicentennial year, there is now in progress a drive...
Married. Margaret M. Eddy, daughter of famed Evangelist and Y. M. C. A. Leader Sherwood Eddy; and George Kerry Smith, an instructor at the King School, Stamford, Conn.; at Denishawn House (dance school) in Manhattan, where the bride was given in marriage by Dancer Ted Shawn (Mr. Eddy was in England writing a book). Before the ceremony Dancer Ruth St. Denis (Mrs. Shawn) danced a prayer of invocation before an altar of fiery dahlias...
From another source came another conflicting story about Mrs. McPherson's condition. At Des Moines, Mrs. Peggy Myrtle King, Templar, said that the evangelist was suffering a nervous relapse because a lunatic had hurled a snake through her window. Los Angeles Templars were debating whether or not they should begin a three-day fast to restore Sister's sight, although the attending physician announced that she would probably be able to deliver the Sunday sermon...
...evangelist named Robert Semple came to town. "He had brown hair and a beautiful face, and he upset me. I said to my father: 'Daddy, let's go.' " Several days later she fell down in a roller-skating rink, sprained her ankle. Following this experience a "great fire came down," she got the Oldtime Religion and Evangelist Semple. Together they went to China, where he died, leaving her with a baby, Roberta. She returned to California and married one Harold McPherson, by whom she had another child, Rolf. Then she divorced McPherson and took up soul-saving. Once, lacking...