Word: gospeleer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Billy Sunday, died gasping in the arms of her son Rolf-a bottle of sleeping pills on the bed table beside her. Though tired and ill, she had come up from Los Angeles to conduct a series of four revival meetings and dedicate a new church of her Foursquare Gospel (which now has 400 branches and 195 missions). On the evening of the day she died, she was to have preached on "The Story of My Life...
With her two children Aimee then began a long pilgrimage through the U.S. to preach her own brand of fundamental ist salvation, which she called the Four-square Gospel. On street corners and under canvas she preached, from Maine to Florida and from coast to coast. Tired of wandering at last, in 1918 she loaded her mother and her children into a broken-down jalopy and headed for Los Angeles...
California was fertile land for the Four square Gospel. Aimee was soon renting the largest auditorium in Los Angeles and finding it too small. What she needed was a church of her own. "Somehow," she once said, "money has always come to me when I have needed it," and somehow it came to her now. In 1922, with $1,250,000 donated by her followers, she built the huge (5,300 seats) Angelus Temple, provided it with crystal doors, a silver band, a $25,000 radio station. In the Temple her talents found full scope. Clad in white flowing robes...
...sympathized. . . . We exhort you to bear your trials with Christian resignation and fortitude and also with Christian sentiments of forgiveness, charity and mercy so that God may reward in you what the world will admire in you-an example of magnanimity inspired by the spirit of Christ's Gospel...
Since his return, Chaplain Gatlin has preached the Gospel without hindrance. For a while he was in charge of a WAVES barracks in Manhattan. Most of his other sermons have been to sailors on Manhattan piers. Said he last week: "During the month of August it has been my pleasure with the help of God to lead to Christ 47 men, 43 of whom declared their faith at one service, and 20 others rededicated their lives...