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...next rodomontade, Evangelist Sunday became emphatic. "The Bible is a bloody book," he roared, "It is a bloody Gospel. It is a bloody world. . . . You can argue against the Bible but you can't argue against sin. ... I can take you out into the streets of St. Louis and show you thousands of cases of substitution...
Reporters who were present at the arrival in Manhattan of Agnes Maude Royden, famed English evangelist, head of the London Guildhouse, were prepared to find a large woman with little conversation and a big smile. They found instead a small, mercurial, unbeautified, talkative lady, leaning on a chestnut stick. She answered their questions readily and with wit. The reporters then told Agnes Maude Royden that her prospective lectures in Boston and Chicago (sponsored by the Methodist Woman's Home Missionary Society) had been canceled because of rumors that she smoked cigarets and that she also favored companionate marriage...
...MOODY: A WORKER IN SOULS- Gamaliel Bradford-Doran ($3.50). "Are you a Christian?" This was Dwight Lyman Moody's habitual salute to those whose souls he wished to preserve for eternity. Gamaliel Bradford, wishing to preserve the heroic figure of the evangelist, asks a few questions in return. Since D. L. Moody is no longer alive to answer the questions, Author Bradford.must supply his own replies. A wise and searching biographer, he explains very credibly a person who, in an age of great preachers, Was perhaps the tallest and most mighty among them...
...Evangelist Moody was born in 1837, became a shoe-seller, then an ardent saver of .souls. He hammered on the word of God as if it had been a heel-peg, with, determination, with insistence, with enormous vigor, but without superfluous gesticulation. Said D. L. Moody, early in his career: "... I wouldn't let a day pass without speaking to some one about their soul's salvation . . . There will be 365 in a year that shall hear the gospel from my lips." With Ira David Sankey, who sang hymns, he toured the U. S. and England, giving...
Married. The youngest son of Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday, Paul Thompson Sunday; to Mrs. Elene Herbert, of Chattanooga, Tenn.; at Tijuana, Mexico, to escape California's three-day marriage license...