Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half a year of cramming theology, Tomio Muto took the examinations of the United Church of Christ in Japan and became a licensed minister of Tokyo's Omori Church. He spent two spartan years recasting a translation of the Bible into contemporary Japanese, and turned into a spellbinding evangelist. He was an oddity: native Christian evangelists are about as rare in Japan as Japanese are in the Bible belt. Most Japanese ministers concentrate on theology, philosophy, and on earning their livings at outside jobs. Evangelist Muto found, moreover, that Japanese eagerness to please resulted in a high number...
...were going home. "Lord, now is the time to arise and go!" said St. Teresa of Avila. "The good time which I welcome, which is Thy will; the hour when I must leave my exile, and my soul shall enjoy the fulfillment of all her desire!" St. John the Evangelist was also eager to leave: "Thou hast invited me to Thy table, Lord; and behold I come, thanking Thee for having invited me, for Thou knowest that I have desired it with all my heart." "Welcome, Sister Death," said St. Francis of Assisi...
Indefatigable Evangelist Billy Graham paused at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel long enough to receive the Salvation Army's seventh annual citation for his "boundless spirit and unfailing faith." Then, after announcing that he is off to Europe in March for a six-month preaching tour, he headed for Georgia to relax for three days at Augusta's National Golf Club, a favorite course of President Eisenhower. Asked if he planned to play a round with Ike, Graham, whose scores hover in the so-so 90s, laughed and said: "I don't play that good...
...NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, by Davis Grubb. An exercise in terror in which a psychopathic evangelist and murderer creates a nightmare world for a mother and her two young children. Exceptionally effective for a first novelist...
Even such an ardent evangelist as Sears, Roebuck's Chairman Theodore Houser, whose company is noted for its huge profit-sharing payoffs, admits that the plan will work no wonders "in a business where a major part of the cost of the product is represented by the cost of raw materials." Furthermore, says Houser, profit-sharing "is not the first step in building a program of sound employee relations, but the last step [after a company] can find nothing else...