WOMAN EVANGELIST

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 8 October 1928, Page 9

WOMAN EVANGELIST

LATE EDITION

FOURSQUARE GOSPEL.V; GREAT PUBLIC INTEREST. ALBERT HALL THRONGED. (United Uresis By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Brens Association.; Received 1.45 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Oct. V. Dense queues of men and women encircled. Aibert HaJi hours before Airs Amiee McPiierson’s services. Scores of police were needed control the motor cars brought by fashionable bejewelled women. There was a frantic? stampede when the doors opened and there was grave danger of panic. Elderly people with, crutches weie jambed against the building, but the police forced their way in and etfected their rescue. There were remarkable scenes, people rushing, racing and pushing along toe corridors in tne scramble for teats, lu ten minutes, more than 10,tXJU people were inside the building, while thousands mo-re were endeavouring to enter. Officials declare that it was unprecedented in the history of Albert Hall. Airs McPherson made a dramatic entry to a flower-decked stage. She was supported on the arms of two followers and wore a whit© silk dress and black cloak. Her address was varyingly humourous, appealing, pathetic and tragic, interspersed w.i'to gestures and anecdotes. In the audience there was considerable enthusiasm, with groans and amens-. Hundreds were in tears.