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Gypsy Smith's evangelistic method is simple. He gets the cockles of the audiences' hearts working emotionally with a few hymns and one of his famed talks ("From Gypsy Tent to-Pulpit" or "Three Years with the Boys in France"); then he asks all who "intelligently feel the need of Jesus, and mean to give themselves to Him, body, soul and spirit," to rise in prayer. He does not make them trample moldy sawdust before the public gaze. His converts are led into the "inquiry room" where pastors and personal workers act as nurses after a surgical operation...
...college with automobiles, said: "Rather than do that I would buy 30 cents' worth of powder and blow him up. It would be fairer to the boy." Much more he said, called Judge Ben Lindsey's trial marriage proposal (TIME, Jan. 24) "absurd idea," said of famed evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson that she "crossed the entire country capitalizing her notoriety...
...difficult to believe in God." (In Brooklyn, 90 children, grim, last week proclaimed their membership in a "Society of the Godless"; mocked at school assembly prayers.) ". . . Whether or not professional evangelism has any future, pastoral evangelism has a great future and personal evangelism a greater one. . . ." (In Chicago, Professional Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson told her life story; raised hell for the terror of sinners; filled her heaven with the fresh ululations of 500 new "converts" and her suitcase with fractional currency; went shopping for pretty wearing apparel...
Another Rembrandt, "The Evangelist," was auctioned to Circus-man John Ringling for $78,000. The difference between the values of these two paintings is partly sentimental, partly esthetic. These and 35 other paintings were in the collection of the late Charles Chauncey Stillman of Manhattan. Their auction brought a total...
...deliberate; the trial judge, James R. Hamilton, went home for a rest; Defendant Norris and his bodyguard took a walk over to his hotel. A long time would elapse, all thought, before the jury could untangle the splenetic arguments of the lawyers. Two hundred miles away in Fort Worth, Evangelist Norris' followers prayed industriously...