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...orator, George Truett has been compared with Bryan, Henry Grady, the great Baptist Evangelist Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Last week, after his 50,000 Baptists had paraded down Atlanta's Peachtree Street, with flags, bands and detachments of troops.* Baptist Truett opened the Alliance congress in the baseball stadium, from which the Atlanta Crackers had retired for a week. He led off: "As Baptists from around the encircling globe are gathered in the beautiful, forward-looking and nobly hospitable city of Atlanta. . . ."Launching into a lengthy comparison between Baptist and Roman Catholic beliefs, he summed up his own by saying...
...monkish orders of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U. S., oldest is the Society of St. John the Evangelist.* Members of this order are commonly called the Cowley Fathers, after the village near Oxford, England, where the order was founded in 1865-and where Viscount Nuffield first made his Morris Cowley and Morris Oxford cars. Mother house of U. S. Cowley Fathers is the Monastery of St. Mary and St. John, on the banks of the Charles River in Cambridge, Mass...
...Ashram (retreat) in Lucknow, India is the spiritual home, and sometimes the physical home, of the world's greatest Christian missionary-Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, Methodist, author of The Christ of the Indian Road, evangelist to high-caste Hindus, who call him Rishi (a saint). From his Ashram last summer Dr. Jones wrote his friends about the Kingdom of God, declaring: "Never have I been so convinced that this is the one hope of the human race. How my heart tingles with joy that we have such a message for such a time as this." Missionary Jones then left...
...Kelly approved of Billy Sunday, was a friend of famed Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody, engaged in frequent religious skirmishes with his fellow townsman, Unbeliever Henry Louis Mencken. For many years he crusaded against liquor, prostitution, Sunday movies, gambling, birth control...
Celebrating what she called her 46th* birthday with a jolly, jampacked jubilee in Los Angeles' Angelus Temple, Evangelist Aimee ("Dear Sister") Semple McPherson romped out in front of her congregation appropriately dressed as a milkmaid, carrying a glistening pail brimful of milk. Pals and paid hands on the stage were treated to drinks. When the pail was empty, Sister Aimee began to sing (see cut), then took up a collection, dumped it in the pail...