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...Football crowds should rise as one man and sing hymns of praise to God instead of drinking and carousing," exclaimed Gipsy Smith, hard-hitting English evangelist. "Some strong man is needed to start such a custom here in America today. Someone should rise and say, 'We are all Christians--let us show it by singing 'Nearer My God To Thee' or 'Abide With Me.' Knute Rockne could have done it," declared Mr. Smith...
Next in line for censure was the system of co-education in this country. Co-education is not a success, according to the evangelist, because it has resulted in too many broken hearts and lives. Too often a student in a "coed" school graduates with an ugly memory which haunts him for the rest of his life...
...depression was the result of God's stretching a chain across the toll road of life and claiming possession. People are then forced to stop and think, and they are dissatisfied with what money brings. "They that sow of the flesh shall reap of the flesh," was the evangelist's concluding volley...
...crucifer and four churchmen in hot black cassocks carrying Christian flags, a parade formed one evening last week near the grave of famed Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody on Round Top near East Northfield, Mass. Missionaries, laymen, church delegations, Bible students, nationals in native costume and two Salvation Army bands-2,000 people in all-marched down to the small New England town. They carried placards: BUILD FRIENDSHIP, NOT BATTLESHIPS-ADMIT JAPANESE ON THE QUOTA BASIS - RELIGION RENOUNCES...
Slogan of the convention was "We Choose Christ." This conviction caused 27-year-old Clyde Grubbs, Texas evangelist, to work his way on a caboose to Toledo, then hitchhike to Philadelphia. Jack Grosvenor, 19, bummed rides from Council Bluffs, Iowa, was robbed of his last $10 in Pennsylvania, pushed on penniless. A boy from Buffalo pedaled wearily to Philadelphia on a bicycle, arriving three days late. Most delegates from out-of-town arrived by automobile, were put up by local Christian Endeavorers. They arose at 7 a. m., gathered in Convention Hall for an early "Quiet Hour" of Scriptural reading...