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These measures failing, the Knights agreed to prosecute certain men and organizations responsible. Last week two actions for criminal libel resulted in the conviction of a Savannah evangelist and the indictment of a Christian minister in New Jersey...
...father, a lumber dealer, were "converted" by a secretary from Des Moines when the younger Mott was 14 years old. He was graduated from Cornell University* in 1888 and the same year he went to Mount Hermon, Mass., attended the Bible study class of Dwight L. Moody, uneducated, forceful evangelist. Since that time Dr. Mott has had an unbroken connection with the Y. M. C. A. More than any other individual he is credited with bringing the Y. M. C. A. to its present $200,000,000 status, and to a place in world esteem which makes it, unlike many...
...Aimee, dear Aimee, we all love you so!" Hung in the hall were signs: GOOD OLD WHISKEY! LADIES MAY SMOKE! SCOTCH WHISKEY IS GOOD FOR ALL COMPLEXIONS! Vitreous vessels, onetime containers of whiskey, stout, champagne, were in idle profusion-all dedicated to the embarrassment of Aimee Semple McPherson, notorious evangelist who inadvertently had chosen university election time to speak to the studentry. Pitifully, persistently she tried to make herself heard above the heckling din. Only when she said, "Let us pray," did the studentry bow their heads in real or simulated reverence. When the prayer came to Amen the divine...
Patrician London remained studiously unconscious, last week, that a female evangelist from California was preaching what she seemed to call her "Four Square Gospel" in famed Royal Albert Hall. Those of the nobility and gentry and middle classes who reflected upon the matter appeared to feel that the Holy Bible still offers a sufficient choice of Gospels. But of course the London mob, the lower classes, rushed to attend the evangelistic First Night of Aimee Semple McPherson. They 'ad 'card vaguely that Missis Mc-Pherson came from 'Ollywood; and, 10,000 strong, they packed and sweated...
Mayor Mackey of Philadelphia clutched the rostrum of the Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church and begged Evangelist "Billy" Sunday to conduct "a great campaign in this city as an antidote to the bootlegger, hijacker and gunman." Mr. Sunday, responding, said the proposition was attractive...