Word: revivalists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although he is profane and frequently ribald away from his mike, Mr. Anthony when wired for sound is as full of virtue as a revivalist. Ladies periodically knocked around by their husbands, men whose wives tend to wander indiscriminately, are uniformly advised by Mr. Anthony that life is beautiful and love will conquer all. The ill winds that blow through his microphone bring Mr. Anthony an estimated $3,000 a week...
...celebrate while there was still time, Pennsylvania had anticipated its actual 200th anniversary by 15 years. It claims birth in 1740, when a charity school and "house of public worship" opened at Fourth and Arch Streets to provide a pulpit for George Whitefield, famed Anglican revivalist preacher. But not until 1749 did Ben Franklin get Philadelphians to establish an academy in the Whitefield Chapel, not until 1755 did it actually become a college...
Revivals are as much a phenomenon of U. S. civilization as quilting bees or rail splitting. Georgia has been a revivalist stronghold ever since pioneer Evangelists John Wesley and George Whitefield saved souls there in the 1730s. But lately revivals have not done so well, even in Georgia. Few years ago famed Old Salem Campground, 32 miles southeast of At lanta, a scene of Methodist evangelistic meetings since 1828, had to turn interdenominational to survive. Last week, as it wound up a rousing ten-day camp meeting, Salem seemed to have hit the sawdust trail for a comeback...
...John G. Thompson of Kremlin, Va. is a little (3 ft. 10) but hefty (115 Ib.) Negro. When it comes to fighting sin, he is a mighty midget. Last week, before spellbound revivalist crowds, he demonstrated his pious art at Milwaukee's St. Matthew's Colored Methodist Episcopal Church...
Awakener. After two centuries Jonathan Edwards is chiefly remembered as the Calvinist preacher whose accounts of Hell scared New Englanders silly. Biographer Winslow revives his far more important distinction as a brilliant example of the New England mind. A diehard doctrinaire, Edwards originated a revivalist mass-technique and a revolutionary, individualistic concept of religion, thus unconsciously promoted a religious movement known as the Great Awakening. The movement swept away the old theocratic Calvinist dogmas of the Mathers, precipitated the separation of Church and State, paved the way for Emerson's transcendentalism...