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Sirs: TIME'S reporting of the Shepard award to Evangelist Harry Ironside [TIME, Dec. 14] is of particular interest to those who knew this outstanding Fundamentalist during his years in Oakland...
About to set out from Chicago on an evangelistic tour one day late last July, a broad-shouldered little preacher turned to his secretary, exclaimed: "I just remembered. The American Tract Society asked me a year ago to write a treatise. Here the contest closes Sept. I and I haven't written a line!" With that Rev. Dr. Henry Allan Ironside grabbed a handful of pencils, a package of copy paper. On an eastbound train, he had a chapter ready to mail from Canton, Ohio. By the time Evangelist...
...accepted a call to Chicago's famed Moody Memorial Church. Booming three strictly orthodox homilies from this pulpit every Sunday and one on Friday, Harry Iron side still-maintains a full schedule of out side engagements for which he accepts any emolument offered. For all his Funda mentalism, Evangelist Ironside hand somely admits: "I know the King James's Version didn't fall from heaven bound in morocco...
MORE than 25 years ago Homer Rhodcheaver, student at Ohio Wesleyan, discovered that had all the talents that make an evangelist's helped. He could shout, sing, play the from bone, and possessed the physical vitality that made him a good college baseball player. He was Ohio Wesleyan's cheer leader, sang in the glee club and learned persuasion by debating on the varsity debate squad...
Today Mr. Rhodcheaver's career is measured in statistics. For 25 years he traveled with Hilly Sunday, the evangelist. He covered 700,000 miles of the grwdust trail, performance in 450 different localities, led 100,000,000 people song. He knows over 500 songs. Showing no of tiring, he is now heard over a radio network and community sing program. Through radio, he believes he has added another, 110,000,000 people to the who have lifted their voices in song under his arms and exhortation...