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...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...
...attended Salem camp meetings for generations, looks upon them as its annual vacation. On Sundays brick-red dust smoked up from the dirt road into Salem's 65 acres as thousands more arrived to hear a thunder of evangelists, headed by a redheaded, blue-eyed, 81-year-old Methodist, Dr. Bascom Anthony...
...save this country from encroachers and despoilers we are going to need all that wild piratical blood. My ancestor (remember Commodore Edward M. Preble of Old Ironsides fame) rode into this Ohio country as an itinerant Methodist preacher . . . a pistol in his belt and a jug of Monongahela whiskey tied to his saddle. He was a pioneer, ripe for a fight or a frolic at any moment. He found both, aplenty...
...Clergymen of nearly all faiths (but by no means all clergymen) put themselves in opposition by sermons, letters, testimony before Congressional committees. Typical Catholic: Monsignor Michael J. Ready of the National Catholic Welfare Conference who pleaded for volunteer recruiting. Typical Methodist: prime, bespectacled Dr. Charles F. Boss Jr. (conscription would "junk the American system"). Dr. Boss presided at an anti-conscription rally in Washington, where posters ("We're using our ballots so we won't stop bullets") indicated that his audience would not furnish many volunteers...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Christian Fichthorne Reisner, 68, founder and pastor of Manhattan's Broadway Temple Methodist Church; after a gallstone operation; in Manhattan. Onetime Kansas newshawk, Dr. Reisner startled sophisticated New Yorkers with his promotion schemes to "sell" religion (billboard advertising, Broadway entertainers in the pulpit, hymn-whistling services, preaching in costume) succeeded in raising $3,000,000 for his skyscraper church (still unfinished) before the 1929 crash...