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...Ushers! Get up and chain the doors! Nobody's going to escape while I'm preaching." This was the way Evangelist Jerry Owen created his own captive audience when he preached at Boston's Esquire Theatre last Sunday. "You know, folks," Owen went on, "that two old ladies jumped up and ran when I made that announcement yesterday." He gave a satisfied chuckle, probably indicating that they hadn't made...
This use of forceful tactics comes as a hangover from the days fifteen years ago when Jerry Owen was number one sparring partner for boxer Max Baer. Baer moved on to Hollywood as a slapstick comedian; Owen left him and started up the sawdust trail as an evangelist. As Owen explains it, Jesus came down one night to call him to the pulpit. Jesus said "Come on Jerry, I'se got sumpin' for you--I'm gone make you a fisher of men." Then Jesus dropped into the background to brush up on his grammar, and Jerry Owen baited...
...Evangelist Billy Graham, who leads revival meetings on radio and television, has found a new medium: the movies. At a prayer-meeting premiere (pronounced "premeer") in Hollywood Bowl this week, he presented a movie entitled Mr. Texas. Evangelist Graham calls it "the first Christian Western...
...real star of Mr. Texas is Billy Graham. The most effective sequences are those of his mile-a-minute preaching, filmed last February and March at Fort Worth's Will Rogers Coliseum. As a movie, Mr. Texas is amateurish. But it cost only $35,000. Evangelist Graham concedes: "It's no DeMille, but then DeMille takes $35,000 to warm up his lights...
Money & Religion. His interest in the Bible, however, actually got Manning into politics. As a farm boy of 17, he heard a broadcast sermon by William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart, a Calgary evangelist with a persuasive social message. Bible Bill later became premier of Alberta as head of a Social Credit party that promised to pay a $25 monthly dividend to every citizen. Manning had joined Aberhart's Prophetic Bible Institute as a student and helped his chief sell Alberta on the fuzzy Social Credit theory by stumping the province, singing hymns and reciting prayers at political rallies. When Aberhart...