Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early one morning last week in the heart of London the bells of Southwark Cathedral clanged to commemorate a distinguished act by an otherwise undistinguished Southwark citizen named John Harvard. Across the Atlantic in Cambridge, Mass., great scholars from the earth's four corners joined in solemn procession to pay homage to the school that John Harvard helped to found. After 300 years Harvard was not only the oldest and richest university in the U. S. but also one of the world's brightest lamps of learning...
...John Harvard statue before University Hall was modeled for Sculptor Daniel Chester French by onetime (1891-93) U. S. Representative Sherman Hoar of the Class of 1882. Last week the Boston press revealed that the vacant lot in Charlestown, Mass., in which John Harvard is supposedly buried is now being used as a dump...
...women will spend four days in the following communities: Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Detroit, Indianapolis, Atlanta, Birmingham, Louisville. St. Louis, Cleveland, Des Moines, Omaha, Billings, Mont., Seattle, Vancouver, Portland, Ore., San Francisco-Oakland, Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, Washington, Raleigh, Philadelphia, Boston, winding up with a multitudinous evangelical mass meeting in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden the second week of December...
...become sanctified. A man who felt the spirit move toward a closer personal touch with Jesus went to the "sinners' bench.'' Behind him the congregation's feet stomped, hands clapped, voices cried, ''Glory, glory, glory, glory." Praying as he became the focus of mass hysteria, the man began to quiver, shake, jerk in a St. Vitus' dance. "Let him get through, oh Lord! More power, Lord! Glory! Glory!" the congregation cried. The man's arms went up. His head went back. His mouth uttered "unknown tongues" until he dropped unconscious, "slain...
...community. This was achieved through: ij morning meetings of ministers and women; 2) luncheons for lay leaders, women, all office holders of all local churches; 3) noontime evangelist meetings in a downtown church or theatre; 4) afternoon seminars for ministers and laymen, conferences for young people; 5) evening mass meetings and sings; 6) huge Sunday popular mass meetings...