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...April 20, the Rev. J. J. Ivie, 57, a traveling Ozark evangelist of the fundamentalist Assembly of God Church, went home to his cottage in Cherryville, Mo. and quietly told his wife that he was going on a religious fast. In 27 years as a preacher in the foothills, he had come to feel an increasing depression about human sinfulness, and a sense of personal failure in his efforts to lead his fellow men to repentance...
Delegates also approved a resolution cal ing for a vigorous, worldwide evangelist] campaign in 1953, the 250th anniversar of the birth of Methodism's founder, Joh Wesley. As the titular leader of U.S. Mett odists, Philadelphia's 56-year-old Bisho Fred P. Corson, new president of the Metf odist Council of Bishops, puts the emphasi on attracting youth. "The Communist! Fascists and ultra-fundamentalists, like tb Youth for Christ," he said, "all came t power via the youth movement. We mu< face that fact and recognize that they suf plies some sort of inner urge...
...France, where he found only one convert to rattle around in "a great spiritual vacuum," Evangelist Billy Graham had a little chat with SHAPE'S General Dwight D. Eisenhower. The general, Graham was relieved to discover, approved of religion. Ike, he reported, told him: "We must have...
Since last month, Evangelist Nichols has had what he wanted: a 145-station hookup of the American Broadcasting Co. Nichols himself, speaking with a strong Texas drawl, leads the preaching in a new Sunday radio series, called Herald of Truth...
...Every week,'' wrote Evangelist Jim Nichols of Abilene, Texas, "the Lutherans, Baptists, Methodists, Catholics. Christian Reformists. Seventh-Day Adventists, Christian Church and scores of independent preachers spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in preaching false doctrines from coast to coast over the air." Strapping young (24) Evangelist Nichols of the fervent and fast-growing Churches of Christ (10,000 congregations, 1,000,000 members) called on his denomination to put its own message...