AMERICAN EVANGELIST.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20072, 9 October 1928, Page 11

AMERICAN EVANGELIST.

ALBERT HALL ADDRESS. UNPRECEDENTED SCENES. | THOUSANDS RUSH FOR SEATS. Australian and N.Z. Pres3 Association. LONDON, Oct. 7. Mrs. Airnee McPherson, who has come io England from America on an evangelising mission, gave her first public address to-day at the Albert Hal!, London. Dense queues of men and women encircled the 'hall hours before tho service commenced. Scores of policemen controlled the queues. Motor-cars brought many fashionable and bejewelled women to the hall. There was a frantic stampede when the doors were opened, and a grave danger of a panic. Elderly people on crutches were jammed against the building, and policemen forced their way to and rescued them. Remarkable scenes were witnessed inside tho hall. People rushed, raced and pushed down the long corridors and then scrambled for seats. In ten minutes more than 10,000 people were in the hall and thousands of others were endeavouring lo enter. Officials say the scene was unprecedented at the Albert Hall. . Mrs. McPhorson made a dramatic entry to the flower-decked stage supported on the arms ot two of her followers. She wore a white silk dress and a black cloak. Her address varied from tho humorous to the appealing, the pathetic and the tragic, interspersed with gestures and anecdotes. Considerable enthusiasm was displayed. There were groans and "Amens" and hundreds of people shed tears. Mrs. Mcpherson announced that for the first time in her career her choice of a subject for to-morrow would be guided by the newspapers. A hundred converts went on to the stage and knelt in prayer. lhe evangelist was gratified by their number.