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He wildly tore across the stage, thrashing his arms, kicking, bellowing. He jumped on a chair, then on the pulpit, bent backward like the foil of a fencer's sword, and bobbed back and forth. The thousands in the frenzied crowd gasped. Leaping down, he began to shadowbox the Devil, then threw himself prostrate on the floor. He roared at the crowd, "If you want to live in sin, all right, live in sin, and go to hell in the end." This was the Reverend...
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His message would be heard around the world. No one guessed he would change the world. A simple country farm boy once prayed that God would use him, and prayed, and prayed. And God did use him, beyond what he ever imagined. He grew into a man who would lead millions of people to Christ, a man who would be known as the greatest evangelist of our time. Come read the story of Billy Graham and follow his life from his days as a boy, who wasn't so great...
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This definitive, two-volume encyclopedia is the first academic reference work devoted specifically to religious revivals in North America. Incorporating the work of 120 scholars, the first volume contains an A-Z set of 228 articles touching on people (e.g., Billy Graham, Aimee Semple McPherson, Francisco Olaz̀bal, etc.), revival events (the Great Awakening, Cane Ridge, the Azusa Street Revival), religious denominations or groups associated with revivals...
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"In Wonder Shows, Fred Nadis offers a colorful history of traveling magicians, inventors, popular science lecturers, and other presenters of "miracle science" who revealed science and technology to the public in awe-inspiring fashion. The book provides an innovative synthesis of the history of performance with a wider study of culture, science, and religion from the antebellum period to the present. ... Although most recent defenders of science are...
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