Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Episcopal-style evangelism, to be sure. There was no public testimony of the saved, no mourners' bench nor sawdust trail, no Bible-banging nor marimba band. The middle-aged women and young people who came to hear Evangelist Green merely rose to their feet at the proper times or hunched forward in their cane-bottomed seats to pray. But when the week-long mission closed on Sunday night, Bryan Green's audiences had totaled approximately 42,000-an average of about 6,000 a night. Such crowds carried an obvious inference: modern congregations might be ready for some...
Tallulah's gay parties at her house off Berkeley Square became notorious. She allegedly got Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson tipsy and took pictures. But she generally behaved like a duchess at society functions. An exception was one big masked ball, given for charity at Devonshire House, and attended by every socialite from the Duke of Kent down; some time during the evening Tallulah was seen turning perfect cartwheels around the room...
...Atlanta, eight-year-old Child Evangelist Renee Martz pulled on her cowboy boots, sermonized 3,000 people in the City Auditorium, after which her father asked everyone in the audience to buy a book at $1 a copy giving her "full life story." Proceeds, he explained, would pay for a missionary trip to Africa...
...Detroiters witnessed what they thought was the first religious skywriting since the invention of the airplane:* a plane which inscribed an eleven-mile-long JESUS SAVES in white smoke. The stunt was the brain child of the Rev. Bert Turner, 36, an itinerant evangelist. The skywriting company reduced its usual rate to $10 a word, threw in a free cross between the two words and a couple more at the end, "if the pilot had any smoke left...
...romp through most of Waugh's later books, sharing their futile power for pointless and appalling mischief with such later creations as raffish, rascally Basil Seal, motorbiking Father Rothschild (a member of a younger branch of the banking family, who had become a Jesuit priest), and the American evangelist, Mrs. Melrose Ape. With her cotton-winged angels (Chastity, Divine Discontent, et al.), Mrs. Ape wowed high society by singing her inspirational hymn: There ain't no flies on the Lamb...