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This week, after 14 months of evangelizing through the U.S. and Canada, the Brunks are preaching the word in Goshen, Ind., to crowds of nearly 3,000 a night. At their previous stop, Waterloo, Ont., attendance was even larger: 105,000 during four weeks of steady preaching (including 1,500 who made formal "decisions for Christ"). Local Canadian pastors were so pleased with the results that some canceled their own services to let their congregations hear the Brunks preach...
...Will Be Taken ... At their last big service in Waterloo, Lawrence, as usual, led the congregation in a series of old-time hymns, interspersed with short, humorous monologues. After the tent was filled, George got up to preach, wearing no tie and a suit with no lapels (in accord with old Mennonite custom). By the time he wound up his hour-long sermon, the audience had caught his enthusiasm...
...Moon Is Blue. Boy-Meets-Girl, Girl-Meets-Wolf, Wolf-Meets-Waterloo (TIME, March...
Though he wrote many books (British Radicalism, 1791-1797; The Course of Europe Since Waterloo; Mr. Gladstone), Hall never cared much for footnote scholarship. He was primarily a teacher, always cheerful and always ready to chat with anyone who happened by. "Just a minute till I turn on the electricity," he would say as he fumbled with his hearing aid. But teaching, to him, was more than reviving the past, and he could never talk about a favorite era or a favorite hero without drawing a moral. One of his favorites was the 18th century ("More broad-minded cusses were...
...during the Peninsular War, and later through a modest role at Waterloo and a quiet five years on garrison in the isles of Greece, Private William Wheeler of the 51st Regiment wrote long letters to his family back in Somerset. Such tales they told, and with such a wit and ardor, that the family kept and read them for a Sunday treat during more than a century after the old soldier's death (he contracted leprosy in Greece). In 1949 the letters came by chance to the eye of a British publisher, were printed, and promptly acclaimed...