Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he was five the family moved to his father's second pastorate in the little (pop. 6,635) town of McMinnville, Ore. One Sunday there, Ted sat in church listening to an evangelist his father had invited to preach. "He finished, and he asked for true believers to come forward," says Adams. "Without even knowing I was doing it, I stood up and I saw my father standing there waiting. It was only three or four steps up there, but even as a six-year-old I thought to myself that they were terribly important steps...
...guided . . . Much of the sexual irregularity of today may ... be caused neither by wickedness nor by ignorance, but by the fact that man's creative instinct is being denied its proper channels." ¶ Winding up a ten-day campaign at Cambridge (TIME, Nov. 21) and Oxford Universities, Evangelist Billy Graham preached to an Oxford congregation packed so tightly into St. Aldate's Church that students could not kneel to pray...
...constitutional right of the 359 inmates to religious freedom was being denied, and 2) a prison rule was being broken by permitting religious services to be held outside the chapel. Last week the case came up in Seattle's Superior Court. A parade of prisoners testified that the evangelists competed loudly with each other, asked for contributions, insisted that inmates could be saved only by kneeling by the bars while an evangelist put his hands on their heads. "If you tried to talk," said a prisoner, "they'd just play the music louder and shake their fists...
Superior Court Judge Howard M. Findley sidestepped the constitutional issue, refused to terminate the services. But before the evangelists could get out a hallelujah, he also refused their request to abrogate the prison rule prohibiting services outside the chapel, turned the whole matter over to Sheriff Tim Mc-Cullough. The sheriff decided that services henceforth will be held in the chapel where the evangelists can reach only prisoners who want to hear them. "It's a dirty shame," said one evangelist. "Why, we've been the bulwark against Communism in that jail for many years...
President Funston seems preordained for his evangelist's job. He is in the prime of life (45), tall (6 ft. 3 in.), ruggedly built (200 Ibs.), and he has a boyish smile and an easy friendliness that make him at ease with Kansas dirt farmers, Milwaukee matrons or millionaire Texans. He is not interested in who sells the stock-or in what companies-so long as the stock is sound. Says he: "A very small amount of personal savings goes into direct stock ownership. I'm not interested in how we split the pie. I want a bigger...