Word: michaux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Surprising things happen in the name of God in Washington's Griffith Stadium when Elder Lightfoot Solomon ("Happy am I") Michaux holds "services...
This year Radio Evangelist Michaux. who calls his sect the "Gospel Spreading Association," produced five Spectaculars. At the first (Memories of the Cross), the devil was buried in a glass casket with full funeral rites. At the second (The Heart of My Lord Was Broken for Me), an electrical bleeding heart spilled crimson liquid on twelve female "penitent sinners" while the choir sang Fountain Filled with Blood. The third (Jesus...
Last week, before 14,000 people. Showman Michaux brought his series to a fitting close. Shining in a white dinner jacket, he proclaimed that the traditional inscription on Jesus' cross, INRI (Latin abbreviation for Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews), was inappropriate: "We have coined a new phrase-WJSV, which means WILLINGLY JESUS SUFFERED FOR VICTORY!" Then the choir, donning red caps marked with W, J, S or V, shouted out the letters in cheering-section style, and Elder Michaux with five assistants baptized 156 excited white-robed penitents in a tank behind home plate...
...visit to Alaska, Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, Negro evangelist, chartered a plane, flew out over the Bering Sea, heaved out a watertight canister containing a Russian-language Bible. Elder Michaux's hope: that the Bible would wash up on Russian territory, and that "God would send the proper person to find it and get it to the people of Russia...