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Some 1000 happy conservatives attended a 12-hour "Rally for God and Country" at the Statler-Hilton Hotel yesterday, and heard 13 speakers from Billy James Hargis to Ezra Taft Benson denounce internal subversion.
Hargis (g as in give) came from a strongly religious family. His father, a dollar-a-day truck driver during the Depression, was an elder in Texarkana's Rose Hill Christian Church. Hargis recalls that "the first promise I made was to read the Bible all the way through...
He was ordained a preacher in the Disciples of Christ at the age of 17, and, with the encouragement of one of his Bible College teachers, began to tour the Southwest, preaching at revival meetings. "He said I had promotional ability," Hargis says. "That's all evangelism is-promotional...
Better than Healing. Hargis had relatively little following outside Tulsa until 1954, when a sharp-eyed advertising executive named L. E. ("Pete") White, who had successfully publicized the booming career of Oral Roberts, took an interest. White finds that the anti-Communist angle which Hargis uses is better than either...
Hargis was dropped from the Disciples of Christ ministerial roll in 1957, does not preach in any church now. He appears via film and tape on 141 radio and 24 television stations, and spends 20 days each month speaking on tours through the South and Midwest. Says he: "I always...