16-YEAR EVANGELIST

Evening Star, Issue 20510, 14 June 1930, Page 15

16-YEAR EVANGELIST

EMOTIONAL SCENES ATTEMPT TO “SAVE” NEW YORK NEW YORK, April IS. Emotional scenes of religious fervour, frequently verging on hysterical manifestations, are being enacted nightly' in the Cornell Memorial Methodist Church hero, where America’s youngest evangelist, Dolores Dudley, who is only sixteen years of ago, is attempting to “save New York from the devil.” Many thousands have been crowding tho church during tho campaign of the slight young girl, scarcely sft in height, who' is giving New York its latest thrill. Dolores is always accompanied by her mother at tho services when she exhorts her congregations in passionate oratory to “reject the pleasures of the world.” She preaches from Bible texts wholly extemporaneously. “When T was very young,” she told me, “ I wanted to be an actress, but one evening seven years ago I went to a small mission meeting and became converted. 1 have preached many times in gaols and infirmaries. I left school when 1 was thirteen, and since then all my time has been given to evangelical work. “ Now York is a wicked city. Tho chief ways of wickedness everywhere are the same—love of money and love of worldly pleasures, ft seems to me that pleasure dominates the ideas of young people. “I used to go to tho movies before I was converted, but. I have not gone since. ■ The devil uses the movies to put scenes of crime and wickedness on the screen. “Of course, 1 am against prize-fight-ing. It is a brutal exhibition of worldliuoss.”