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...first official sermon as Preacher to the University, the Rev. Charies P. Price '41 remarked on the curiosity of an Episcopalian becoming preacher "in this citadel of Puritanism, Unitarianism, and free thought...
Price said that he entered upon his office "proudly and gladly" but recalled that the situation had not always been thus: in the eighteenth century New England Puritans and Episcopalians hurled epithets at one another, and in 1859 Frederic Huntington resigned as University Preacher after becoming an Episcopalian, because he felt his denomination was inconsistent with Harvard custom...
...minister recalled that chapel attendance at Harvard was last compulsory in 1886, when University Preacher Francis Peabody said it reminded him of his preaching experience in the state prison. "No pressure will ever be exerted on you to come to this chapel or to worship at all," Price declared...
Nobody had heard of Billy Graham either. He was a Baptist preacher from North Carolina, had recently flopped at a revival meeting in Altoona, Pa. Brought to Los Angeles by a group of fundamentalist ministers to conduct an evangelistic mission, he ran into discouraging difficulties. His sponsors had trouble raising the $20,000 budget; the owner of the selected tent site refused to rent it for the crusade; the fire commissioner complained that the circus-style tent was a public hazard...
...evangelists who preached a direct communion with God: "their business was to save souls as quickly and as widely as possible." Evangelical anti-intellectualism reached its zenith in the revivalist Billy Sunday, who hated learning like hellfire. "What do I care," he scoffed, "if some little dibbly-dibbly preacher goes tibbly-tibbling around because I use plain Anglo-Saxon words? Jesus was no dough-faced, lick-spittle proposition. Jesus was the greatest scrapper that ever lived...