The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-12
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Editor, The Times-News:
Vour vacant editorial on -

Editor, The Times-News:
| Your recent editorial on "A
SQUARE Deal for the Evangelist
was discreet. just and merited.
Like yourself, / do not know
all the methods in vogue in the
HendcrSonville tent meetings. !
have read that "one swallow
don't make a summer" and it
! must be true that lone clown
don't make a circus" but circus
would be dull without a clown.
Evangelists realize that if they
succeed in their work they must
get the people, many people.
There is inspiration in numbers.
An old adage says, "lf you can't
get the public eye any other way,
get it with your umbrella" That's
| what the evangelist does as last
resort, but the end justlfies the
| means.
Several boys who lived on a
hill in the village, one spring,
agreed to put up bird boxes. They
! did, and soon it was noticed that
all the birds went to John Smiths
box. The other boys didn't like 1t
/ and one day threatened mob Vlo-
| lence on John. They said it wasn't
fair. John told them to gather
around close and he would tell
them the secret. When they came
near he simply said: Il feed 'em."
! Now, it's the truth, if the evan
gelist doesn't feed en-" they
| don't come. Billy Sunday knew
that from the start, and Beecher
and Talmage, and Sam Jones and
Bulgin and Sturgeon, all great
preachers knew that and that was
one reason why they were great.
Aimee Semplc McPherson's ca
reer began in a gospel tent meet
ing { think in Florida). Later
she conceived the idea that she
would found Il temple and call it
"Angelus Temple, Home Of the
Four Square Gospel" Los Angeles
accepted her with her big idea,
and the greatest evangelistic work
ever undertaken was on and is
still going.
The temple seats 5000 people
| $4,000 in emergency and it is
crowded often at regular services.
She has organized 4 band Of 5O
| pieces, choir of 100 voices, an
orchestra that everybody loves to
hear. Her programs and sermons
are broadcast to millions outside.
Not Just Angelus Temple is the
result of this remarkable evan
gelist woman's work. More than
| three score branch "4-Square"
churches have been established in
leading American cities and sew
enty-fve or more foreign missions
in all parts of the world.
Mrs. Mcpherson has made more
than one world trip to inspect and
assist these missions and Annie"
has ridden the camels in the car
avian way on the deserts and been
carried by elephants in royal
splendor in India, but all the
while she is an evangelist.
She has been criticized, she sell
dom replies. She has been accused
falsely, she goes on making more
converts, or writes another an,
them, or play or new book, and
breaches regularly and with great
results. She is an evangelist, one
of the foremost in the world, and
her people areloyal and the work
| is moving on.
Having said this, would not
have it understood that | approve
idle buffoonery in the pulpit
do not. l like a Kentucky thor
oughbred far better than Next
can broncho. Moses did not re-
sort to any legerdemain when he
went up Mt. Sinai to talk with
God and bring back the Ten Com
mandments, and Jesus uttered the
| most chaste and concise language
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