Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunland, Calif., Church Member William Doak advertised a revival at Evangelist Harry O. Anderson's Baptist Church by dressing up like the devil, picketing the church. He paraded with a sign: "Anderson's program unfair to me and my friends. This institution entices my servants away. Local No. 666, Union of Amalgamated Beelzebubs...
...hundred yards up Memorial Drive, jammed in between a swank apartment house and the Boston Elevated stockyards, towers a neo-rom-anesque stucco structure, a bastard of medieval and modern simplicity. It is the retreat of the Cowley Fathers, black-robed brothers of the Order of St. John the Evangelist, who have come to seek heavenly peace on the fringe of the State's No. 2 industrial city. It is from here that the fathers set out on their nation-wide pilgrimages to preach the Episcopalian gospel; it is here that a good many world-weary sinners--ex-convicts, professors...
...brothers of the Society of St. John the Evangelist are Catholics in faith and tradition, but for historical reasons they deny papal authority and dislike being lumped together with the Roman Church. They hold five services a day, and take their meals in silence while the Father Superior reads from the Scriptures to take their minds off their plates. Malicious tongues have it that they are sometimes overzealous in conforming to the Catholic ritual; and it is related that the late Cardinal Hayes warned a blundering altar boy that his faux-pas might soon be adopted by "the brothers...
...life of the order of St. John the Evangelist is not always one of monotonous spirituality. In 1932, for instance, a devout believer is reported to have sent the fathers two cases of beer, as a token of his gratitude to God for the repeal of Prohibition. The fathers promptly celebrated; unfortunately so did a party in the apartment-house next door. According to the tale, the party eventually addressed their neighbors as "swizzling monks", and the brothers leaned out of the window to reply. Their exact answer has never been recorded...
Under the benign gaze of a life-size statue of Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, the marquee of Angelus Temple in Los Angeles billed: "'Confusion Say' Vividly Illustrated...