The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-18
Noted EUangelist, Guest
 Of Birmingham All This
 Week, Al Simpson Church
Rev. Mable QuamSevens Has Devoted Most of Her Life to Bible Research, Travel in Palestne and Preaching
 Dr. E. l.. Stevens, M. D., Lectures Health
By CAROLYN B. ELLIOTT

l Il a i visitor to Birmingham, whose name is listed on the lecture. platform with 1 pr c. Campbell Morgan. Dr. Palmer and
 pr. Copurn, the great excayator oi l Palestine, and who is associated as an evangelist in the Interdenominational As. i sociation of Evangelists with Billy Sun day and Milford B. Lyons is Rev. MabIe Quam-Stevens an ordained minister of i the Congregational Church, who will con-
 duct evangelistic services this week in tthe simpson Methodist Episcopal Church 1 Perhaps Birmingham people do not need 1 it" re ninded that those who fail to hear Mrs. Stevens will miss a rare opportu- nlty. For the benefit of many who did not have the privilege that was mine of 1 talking with this remarkable woman for half an hour, I'm going to tell you that when went 10 keep my engagement wish her was wondering just what kind of a person, sure-enough live woman l. preacher would be. In my ignorance. [ imagined she would be ostensibly one of the thoroughly capable kind, rather "bossy.H if you please-ready to manage mot anything or anybody, from political campaign to a Billy Sunday, revival And thought of course. she would look very superior and that her voice would be en- tirely in keeping with q tone. Of severity l in it. Imagine my surprise when low. sweet voice, most excellent thing in T woman, greeted me, and the evangelist stood before me, feminine to her finger ! tips, whom l recognized at once would 1 be quite at home sewing on buttons or brewing tea as she would be in the pull pit, or on the lecture platform teaching Gods word with eloquent appeal to thou sands of interested people
 Regardless of the fact that Mrs. Ste vens has been recognized as one of the great speaker at Ocean Grove by an audience of 10000 people; regardless that she was the first woman ever received on the platform of Tent Evangel in New York City; that she has been on the pro- grammes with some of America most fa- nous lecturers, she is entirely unspoiled. Her work during the summers. on the chautauqua platform, is that of an ex- positor of the Bible, lecturer on He brew literature.
 HER TRAVELS
 My visits to the Holy Land have al- ways been made as a Bible student not as a missionary Mrs Stevens told me, because wanted to enter into their social life and to gain the viewpoint as nearly as possible of the Oriental"
 Many times Mrs. Stevens has visited every historic place in Palestine and Egypt. From these experiences she has been enabled to give to the public won derful pageants on the Bible, with from sixty to l50 stage participants, and in this manner in chautapqua work she often il- illustrates her Bible teachings.
 ''I must tell you of Selim E. Barakat. who has always been my guide through Egypt and the Holy Land, to whom owe all my interpretations of Bible GUS toms and costumes said Mrs. Stevens. 1 ''He was born and reared in Joppa, Pales- tine. His. father is a Mohammedan Turk and his mother Syrian Jew. The son, BaraHat is a Protestant of the Presbyte- rian denomination, and during the war, in spite of the belief of his people. he took a stand for the Allies. In conse-. quence, the Sultan stripped him of all his possessions and banished him into the desert to suffer the torment of hun ger and thirst that we cannot ina zine. While hundreds around him were perish
 ing. Barakat continued true to his faith in God and the cause of the Allies.
 Months after General Allenby marched triumphant into the gates of Jerusalem. the faithful guide was allowed to return. to the home of his fathers. where he has started anew building his life and his fortune, and giving himself to Christian sr o~ his people,
 Mrs. Stevens experiences in the Orient an. in s..rope are full of thrilling incl dents. Though much of her life has been spent abroad. she is thoroughly patriotic, and in the travelling academies she has conducted through Europe it has always been her choice to base her courses of lectures on the American setting of his toric scenes, while her assistant has given the foreign local coloring"
 INTERPRETATION
 My interpretations of the Bible are lit- eral interpretations.s explained Mrs Ste vens. q do not take it up doctrinallv
 In speaking of the evangelistic serv- ices she is conducting in Birmingham the evangelist said:
 "The feeling today with regard to evan- gelism is that which empha sizes the long lines of agreement between denomipa- tions, and drops the little points of diff ference, in order that we may work to- gether for the greatest results, This is the attitude of the Interdenominationai Association of Evangelists.
 Evangelism of the past has really been somewhat selfish, in the belief that each persons soul was saved to go to Heaven. Now we know that every per son who is saved is saved for service
 ''I wish you could know the patriotism,