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...nights after the Korean war began, Methodist Missionaries Bertha Smith, an evangelist, Helen Rosser, a nurse, and Nellie Dyer, a teacher, were arrested in Kaesong by North Korean Communists...
...doctrine that Vinoba preaches. It only seems so, because the times have given it new urgency. Walking from one to another of India's 700,000 villages, he asks those who have land to share it with those who have none. Without using the words of the gentle Evangelist who preceded him by two thousand years, he tells his audiences that it is more blessed to give than to receive. To those who have land he says: "I have come to loot you with love. If you have four sons, consider me as the fifth, and accordingly give...
...city generally associated with religious liberalism. The 107-year-old church is one of the oldest Baptist congregations in New York (present memberbership: 1,500). But Calvary members regard most Northern Baptists as modernists, and keep up strong ties with the Southern Baptist Convention. In 1931, two years after Evangelist Straton's death, Calvary moved to a new church building on the ground floor of a $2,500,000 17-story building on Manhattan's busy and prosperous 57th Street. The rest of the building, owned and operated by the church, is given over to the Salisbury Hotel...
When James Jackson Jeffries was in his prime, no man in the world could stand against him. His father was a street-corner evangelist, his mother a peaceful Bible-reading woman, but Big Jim was born for combat. At 16, he was working as a boilermaker in East Los Angeles. At 21, he stood 6 ft. 1½ in., weighed 212 Ibs., could high-jump 6 ft. and run 100 yds. in eleven seconds. He could hit like a jackhammer and, in the words of Gentleman Jim Corbett, "couldn't be hurt with an ax." In 1899, when...
...with the name of Arkansas; but one man has tried-with notable success-to change its face. He is a bustling Baptist named C. (for Coulter) Hamilton Moses, chairman of Arkansas Power & Light Co., who has been called the "Billy Sunday of Business." In the past ten years, Industrial Evangelist Moses has been the prime mover in a program to lure industry to his state...