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...contemporary culture, and Pentecostalists, who have experienced the "baptism in the Holy Spirit" and practice such divine "gifts" as speaking in tongues and miraculous healing by prayer. The latter include everything from Episcopalians to nearly a million Roman Catholics, to oddball healers and assorted tent preachers. Most Evangelicals, though, are basically conventional Protestants who hold staunchly to the authority of the Bible in all matters and adhere to orthodox Christian doctrine. They believe in making a conscious personal commitment to Christ, a spiritual encounter, gradual or instantaneous, known as the born-again experience...
...Some 2,000 broadcast preachers, those who have taken their Gospel from tent to tube and also reach 114 million radio listeners, will hold their annual convention in Washington, B.C., next month. Among the speakers will be Anita Bryant, just named "Most Admired Woman" by 22% of 11,530 voters in the annual Good Housekeeping poll, and Marabel (Total Woman) Morgan. As if to emphasize the extraordinary range...
...spiky, spectacular 200-ft. Prayer Tower. Opened in 1965, the campus cost $150 million and is all but paid for. "I had to have a university to show that it was not a fly-by-night thing," Roberts says. Though he folded "the world's biggest revival tent" in 1967, the former faith healer now preaches via TV; an estimated 60 million people watched his latest variety special...
DIED. Dr. Alvan Leroy Barach, 82, developer of the first effective oxygen tent; at New York City's Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, where from 1922 to 1965 he had researched and treated respiratory disease. He searched for ways to allow his patients to lead normal lives, developing, among other devices, a portable oxygen dispenser mounted in a walking stick...
Career: 98 right, 26 wrong (.790). and since the only way I can reach .800 is via a 6-0 week, I'll also take Texas and Michigan over whomever they're playing. See you around The Class of '78 pre-game tent, sports. M.K.S...