FOUR-SQUARE GOSPEL

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 12, 9 October 1928, Page 11

FOUR-SQUARE GOSPEL

MRS. McPHERSON’S MISSION IN LONDON \ UNPRECEDENTED SCENES IN ALBERT HALL (Australian Press Association.) London, October 7. Dense queues of men and women encircled the Albert Hall hours, before Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson’s Foursquare Gospel service. There were scores of police in control. Motor-ears brought fashionable bejewelled women. There was a frantic stampede when the doors opened, and grave danger of a panic. Elderly people and cripples with crutches were jammed against the building. The police forced their way, and rescued them. There were remarkable scenes inside, people rushing, racing, and pushing along the corridors in a scramble for seats. In ten minutes more than ten thousand were inside, with thousands, endeavouring to enter. Officials declare that the scenes were unprecedented for the Albert Hall. Mrs. McPherson made a dramatic entry on the-flower-decked stage, supported on the arms of two followers. She wore a white silk dress and a black cloak. Her address varied between the humorous, the appealing, the pathetic, and the tragic, interspersed with gestures and anecdotes. There was considerable enthusiasm, also groans and amens, with hundreds of people in tears. The evangelist announced that for the first time in her career for tomorrow’s subject she would be guided by the newspapers. A hundred converts went on to the stage and knelt in prayer. Mrs. McPherson was much gratified at the number.