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...Meeting. Handa engineered a meeting with the founder of the new religion, moonfaced Zenjiro Nagumo, a sleek, smooth-tongued evangelist who spiced his exhortations with crisp English phrases, Mohammedan aphorisms and quotations from the Buddhist sutras. "Here," said Handa breathlessly, "is a man after my own heart. He has faith...
...writing the new society chitchat and gossip column that W.R. Hearst had ordered. As "Freddie Francisco," Patterson filled his column with racy penthouse scandal and jive talk, was soon earning $15,000 a year as the Examiner's prize drawing card. Once, when he called a lady Oakland evangelist "sexy-looking," her congregation picketed the Examiner. A great gagster, Freddie rented a beard and paraded with the pickets. He also crusaded against Elmer ("Bones") Remmer, owner of San Francisco's three biggest gambling houses, and drove Bones out of business. (When offered a $500-a-month bribe...
...Episcopal-style evangelism, to be sure. There was no public testimony of the saved, no mourners' bench nor sawdust trail, no Bible-banging nor marimba band. The middle-aged women and young people who came to hear Evangelist Green merely rose to their feet at the proper times or hunched forward in their cane-bottomed seats to pray. But when the week-long mission closed on Sunday night, Bryan Green's audiences had totaled approximately 42,000-an average of about 6,000 a night. Such crowds carried an obvious inference: modern congregations might be ready for some...
Bryan Green (he is popularly referred to without the Rev. or Mr.) is considered England's top evangelist. His success as a fisher of men lies perhaps in his combination of a relaxed, almost chatty delivery with a sudden-flaring, white-hot zeal. His manner is easy and urbane, but his matter is often passionate, personal, and contemptuous of easygoing Christianity. Man is either for God, he says, or against...
...want complete silence throughout the cathedral at this moment when persons are being shown how to give their lives to God . . . It is simple to receive Christ . . . Will you open the door?" (For some 30 seconds Evangelist Green prays silently, his head in his hands...