Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whose talents lay in administrative work, Ernest Pugmire was quite unlike his fiery evangelist father. As an administrator he advanced through the army's staff ranks, by 1942 had become a commissioner and boss of the army's Eastern Territory. Four years later he was nominated by the army's all-powerful High Council in London for the topmost army job: general of the International. It was a signal honor to be in the line of succession from William Booth to son Bramwell Booth,* to Edward John Higgins, to Bramwell's firebrand sister Evangeline...
...clash of life has transformed many things for Old Campaigner Pugmire. William Booth had a horror of holier-than-thou, middle-class respectability. A fear of respectability is reflected by the commissioner, who is the true son of an evangelist, even if he was never a rousing evangelist himself. The legend "Blood & Fire" on the army's flag has lost some of its meaning. The army, taking on respectability in spite of itself, has acquired property, a standing in the community, a connection with Community Chests, advisory committees of distinguished citizens. It has lost some of its old, hoarse...
...standing on the verge of a great national revival," says Evangelist Billy Graham, "an oldfashioned, heaven-sent, Holy Ghost revival that will sweep the nation ... In the words of Joel: 'Put in the sickle while the harvest is ripe...
This week, in a big circus tent ("the largest revival tent in history") in downtown Los Angeles, Evangelist Graham seemed to be wielding the revival sickle as no one since Billy Sunday had wielded it. Sponsored and financed by businessmen, ministers and such groups as Christian Endeavor, Youth for Christ, and the Gideons, 31-year-old Billy Graham arrived in September to conduct a four-week revival...
...Evangelist Graham pays little attention to the revival's finances ("The committee handles all that"), but the amount of money collected has astonished seasoned hands. Though only one collection is taken each session, contributions average 25? a head instead of the usual 7? for revivalgoers...