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...Buchman is a Christian evangelist so unusual in his practices that he has brought considerable obloquy upon himself (TIME, Oct. 18, Nov. 1). A graduate of Muhlenberg College and a Lutheran minister, he has discovered that ordinary church work fails to reach many nominal Christians. Neither are these people affected by the conventional tabernacle howlers. Aimee Semple McPherson, Dr. J. Frank Norris, William A. Sunday can reach great crowds, can excite many a soul to march up the sawdust trail to salvation. But the enduring effect of such theatrical evangelizing is always dubitable. More important, few of the hymn-singing...
...Hammond, Ind., one day last week and again in Chicago, a 16-year-old girl tried out as a professional evangelist. She was Roberta Star Semple, daughter of Aimee Kennedy Semple McPherson, prosperous Baptist evangelist of Los Angeles. Roberta was beginning her career at a younger age than did her mother. But she had her mother to help...
...McPherson, born near Ingersoll, Ontario, in 1890, ran away from home in 1907 (at 17) to accompany one Robert Semple, evangelist. They barnstormed the tabernacles of Canada, China, Australia. The man died in 1911-a month before Roberta Star Semple was born. The widow pet-named her baby "Star of the East...
Rolf McPherson, 14; divorced the man; fended for herself. In 1918 she set up as an evangelist in Los Angeles preaching what she called the "Four Square Gospel" and presuming to cure maladies by divine healing. She prospered; owns property worth approximately $1,000,000; is now coaching her daughter in the profession...
Uldine Utley, pupil of Evangelist Aimée Semple McPherson and protégée of Calvary Bapist's Pastor John Roach Straton, had brought this abnormality into the congregation last January. Like prosperous Mrs. McPherson the stripling girl has the knack of exciting Pentecostal frenzies from her auditors, of throwing them into thaumaturgic fits. Warren Badenock Straton, 19, third son of the pastor (the sons are Rev. Hillyer Hawthorne, John Charles, Warren Badenock, George Douglas) had had his "soul saved" in this fashion. The Monday night Bible class had sought "saving" to such an extent that...