Word: revivalists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Onetime-Subscriber Riebe has been refunded his money. TIME, intending no jocosity, mentioned Genesis only in a phrase accurately describing the Reverend ("Killer") Norris. The phrase: ". . . hot war- whoops of a revivalist-Genesis-trumpeter."-ED. Sirs...
Down in the Texas Baptist belt, where Fundamentalism flourishes under the humid (often illiterate) phrases and hot war-whoops of a revivalist-Genesis-trumpeter, Rev. J. Frank Norris, the prevailing belief among the brethren is that whatever Baptist Norris does is done for the Lord, and is by Him blessed. Last week Rev. J. Frank Norris killed...
...remainder of this appeal to the faithful really smacks too much of the sawdust trail oratory of the camp meeting revivalist to merit much comment. But nevertheless I can not but wonder if the men I knew who died in France would have been so comforted by the assurance that a temple erected to their memory would lure "thousands of beauty lovers to come and jam its pews in search of the road to righteousness" that to find fault with the plans of suggest a different memorial would constitute a sacrilege. A Poll taken among men before going into battle...
...worst situation has some promise in it, while there is always something seriously the matter with every "period of prosperity," even from the beginning. The developments of the past two months are quite generally encouraging, yet common sense is still needed to counterbalance the fervid rhetoric of the revivalist school of business prophets...
HELL-BENT FER HEAVEN? Fairly true and somewhat unusual picture of the Kentucky mountains in the throes of a revivalist complex...