...H. Shelton Smith The Social Ideas of the Northern Evangelists, 1826-1860 . By Cole Charles C. Jr . New York : Columbia University Press , 1954 . Pp. 268 . $4.25 . Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 410 The South Atlantic Quarterly to take time out and study what...

... Whitefield, a dynamic, twenty-five-year-old Anglican evangelist entered South Carolina on New Year s Day, 1740. He walked into a situation tailor-made for exploitation by a preacher of his convictions and oratorical talents. The atmosphere was charged with theological and ecclesi­ astical tensions...

... Quarterly to take time out and study what Mr. Hoskins has to say. It will be a sobering experience for all but the hopelessly optimistic, naive, and quixotic. JOEL COLTON The Social Ideas of the Northern Evangelists, 1826-1860. By Charles C. Cole, Jr. New York: Columbia University Press, 1954. Pp. 268...

... Others ‘‘joked about such bad thingslibidinous and earthy comments about the Immaculate Con- ception—that he just ‘‘could not write Not surprisingly, this lowly Indian evangelist turned...

... by controversies over the status of con­ gregations outside the presbyteries of the Japanese body. The crux of the controversy which continued for a number of years from 1902 to 1909 was found to be the management of funds for evangelistic work. Should the Mission admin­ ister these funds and therefore direct...

... by protracted meetings, especially in the summer. On such occasions, graft, economic injustice, man s inhumanity to man, appear to the visiting evangelist as forms of wickedness less familiar and alluring than the old sins of the world and the flesh, theatre-going, dancing, card­ playing. Against them old...

... regrouped, put down roots largely outside the mainline denominations, and ultimately developed into a subculture or a second wing of Protestantism. No more reconciled to evolution than their theological forebears, fundamentalist groups such as the National Association of Evangelists, in 1939, and the Word...

... gizzard of a trifle, the product of a quarter of a cypher, the epitome of nothing, fitter to be kickt, if shee were of a kickable substance, than either honour d or humour d. Certain of our notorious mod\ ern evangelists who, pausing amid ecstatic portrayals of the eternally sulphurous abode which...

... cathedral, the vestige of superstition, more snugly fit our simplistic conception of an epoch. Ex­ cept for the explorers and an occasional evangelist, politician, and novelist, Norwegian figures are not even secondary; they are at best tertiary, ob­ ...

... cept for the explorers and an occasional evangelist, politician, and novelist, Norwegian figures are not even secondary; they are at best tertiary, ob­ 5oo The South Atlantic Quarterly scure mediocrities of average ability, who embody and reflect a current intellectual temper or theory pietism...

... or the retreat to symbol of the bewildered modern sophisticate, the spellbinding of the politician or the compulsive imagery of the evangelist, the sales promotion of the huckster or the inspired make-believe of court­ ship. These and many more are within the reaches of rhetoric as Mr. Burke surveys it through...

... latest biographic study, his life of the American evangelist, D. L. Moody.1 Mr. Brad­ ford then added to his already large gallery a portrait of still another type of man the man who went through life asking the world one question and one question only, Are you a Christian? Once again the biographer s...

.... The Journal notes that, because the gathering crowd exceeded the capacity of the Reverend Isaac Chanler s meeting house, the famous evangelist was soon haranguing from the shade of the nearest tree according to his custom of field preaching. Whenever and wherev­ er men would assemble, Whitefield shouted his...

... oblivion concerning the early pioneers of Methodism must be soon done. 1 When the evangelist Elias Cornelius landed at New Or­ leans to bring the heathen back into the fold', the city had the life of a cosmopolitan port. Flat-boats, keel boats, sloops, schooners, brigs a forest of masts lined the har­...

... Franklin corresponded with several men who influenced the development of his thought, among them the evangelist George Whitefield, whose sermons and other works Franklin printed and sold, the scientist and philosopher Cadwallader Colden, and the botanist John Bartram. Through these relationships...

... the segregated realm of church history, Miller was already speculating boldly about the cultural significance of such phe­ nomena. By his account, nineteenth-century evangelicalism was more than the particulars of raucous camp meetings, colorful evangelists, and mis­ sionary enterprise. These were...

... seemed wrong. As a corrective he poses these essays, openly assuming the role of evangelist for a new military history, preaching a fresh perspective on war, one carrying the message that war changes society, that strategy and military pol­ icy are aspects of politics, that the incidence of military...

... of the politician or the compulsive imagery of the evangelist, the sales promotion of the huckster or the inspired make-believe of court­ ship. These and many more are within the reaches of rhetoric as Mr. Burke surveys it through an analysis of traditional principles and through an extension of these principles...

... were forced by the needs of their own society to draw increasingly on mission-trained Africans to supply the non­ commissioned officers of the empire, that substantial corps of African court interpreters, clerks, police detectives, evangelists, foremen without whom white governance could not have...

... in the field, a man whose duty is suggestively defined when we call him a sort of evangelist of education, a greatly needed evangelist, any one must say who knows eye to eye and heart to heart the people with whom one must deal in the South and the general nature of the problem. It is a total misunderstand­...