Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Calvin Coolidge's legendary preacher, Reinhold Niebuhr is against sin. But Dr. Niebuhr is no simple evangelist urging good works and blind faith; his battle with sin cuts thick theological ice. He has sawed away to such effect in his 53 years that he is generally known as the No. 1 theologian of U.S. Protestantism...
Every Saturday night in Chicago's 2,500-capacity Orchestra Hall, Youth for Christ rallies listen to this sort of old-fashioned evangelistic appeal. The evangelist: blond, cheerleaderish, 36-year-old Torrey Johnson-director, sparkplug and guiding spirit of "Chicagoland Youth for Christ," president of Youth for Christ International...
This global mission will come under the aegis of Evangelist Johnson's own newly formed offshoot, Youth for Christ International, which already boasts a payroll of 18 employes, including six field men whose salaries average $2,500 a year...
Died. Dr. George Coles Stebbins, 99, author of some 1,500 hymns (most famed: There Is a Green Hill Far Away}, choir director who supplied the music for Evangelist Dwight L. Moody's Anglo-American campaigns (in the 187Os) to "Reduce the Population of Hell by a Million Souls"; in Catskill...
This ad was paid for by the nation's most energetic lay evangelist, Robert Gilmour LeTourneau (TIME, March 25, 1940). Bustling, balding Bob LeTourneau is president of the Gideons-and also of a $26,000,000 corporation making giant earthmovers, mostly road-builders. He regards God as his "business-partner" and brings to his partner's business the same energy and enterprise he gives...