Word: hallelujahs
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...gilt-haired Sister Aimee herself could have been there she might have shouted a big Hallelujah. The temple she built in 1922 buzzed with people and activity. In one part of the main lobby visitors listened to a transcription of Aimee's own attractively earthy voice. In another, a collection of the founder's personal belongings was on exhibition, including her Bible and her drinking cup (for orange juice). The 5,300-seat auditorium and the many other rooms were in almost constant use for rallies, seminars, motion pictures, exhibits. The elevator operator, a leafy orchid...
City officials and schoolteachers demanded that Scott back up his accusations with names and dates, or retract. Scott refused to do either. Sympathizers flocked to his church, murmuring "Hallelujah" as Preacher Scott laid into sin harder than ever...
...years later, a jury acquitted him of burning down his church. Meanwhile, Fundamentalist Norris' tobacco-denouncing, hallelujah-shouting following grew bigger & bigger: by 1935 he was shepherding one congregation in Detroit, another in Fort Worth, commuting between them by plane...
...figures mean anything, organized religion in the U.S. has little to shout hallelujah about. The Twentieth Century Fund's monumental 3½-year study (America's Needs & Resources, published this week) adds a few sorry details to a sorry story that U.S. churchmen already know...
Free State, most Anglophobic of all South Africa's provinces. Along their route sturdy Boer farmers forsook ploughs and politics to shout greetings. Schoolchildren lined the wayside stations and at one siding a dark, native choir sang the Hallelujah Chorus-"with superb effect," reported the Times of London...