A REVIVALIST

Hokitika Guardian, 24 September 1928, Page 4

A REVIVALIST

MRS McPHERSON ON PARIS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). I LONDON, September 22.Mrs McPherson,, the famous Amencan revival evangelist, -has reached Paris, and, giving the “Daily Express” her impressions, she says: “I have been looking into a chasm of horrors, as its beautiful robe was. ?d for a moment fromdhe heart of fill canker eating its core. Mjf head is swirling with the hideous futility of. it.

the city is a veritable Gomorrah. It. seems that the fires must fall at any moment. I went to the dancing halls, where I wanted to leap on a chair and shout “ Stop! In the name of Heaven, - Stop!” In a hall in the Art Quarter there was a long row of boys and girls on high eliairs 'slumped up against a bar. Some of the girls in their teens were drinking and smoking with sang froid of hardened old sinners." was an axiom.here that two years ot this life is sufficient to destroy the body and soul of'these young, people. . The Quartier Art‘Ball is worse than, the orgies of ancient Rome. I' From Mount Parnasse,"l was. whirled to Mont Martre, where I entered a hall, where a negro band was playing. The/negroes PH not hesitate to speak to any. white girls. Gross .licentiousness rode un>ridled. What are the Churches doing? Lastly, I was taken to an ApacheBall. While I live I will never forget the smiling spider, of a man who bowed low and smirked, saying “entrez madame! ” It is all too awful to describe.

Tif you do not know that such horrors, exist, it is better Jpr you that that they be left untold.” , Mrs McPherson,' ’who is visiting London, says she is gohyg “to drive the Devil out of England! She is announced as the head of the Four square Gospel and Lighthouse, Incornorated., - She is travelling with an entourage resembling a cinema star, or H a world-beating boxer.. ..It . includes three secretaries, a press agent, a business manager, six | orchestras, a banjo company of sixty girl.: harpists, knoun as “angels:” • *' '} ' ; . Mrs McPherson speaks at three times the speed of . any political spell-binder, ,getting off- fifteen thousand words in ,an hour. She binds her converts to abandon cards, dancing, smoking; and drink.