EVANGELIST LEADER

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17738, 26 March 1932, Page 4

EVANGELIST LEADER

EJECTS COMMUNISTS ALBERT HALL RIOT LONDON, March 15. Mr Victor Webb, chief evangelist to ' the industrial class of Great Britain, was the central figure in an astonishing riot at the Albert Hall, culminating in a number of Communists being dragged out of the hall, Mr Webb himself assisting in their ejection. I Mr Webb, accompanied by Sir . Kynaston Studd, an ex-Lord Mayor of London, was telling his life story and describing his conversion to Christianity, when he was interrupted by cries of “liar.” From then on Communist, interruptions uv re continuous. Mr Webb warned the interruptors to keep the peace, and finally lie determined to adopt methods ’of muscular Christianity. He himself led the ejection movement while the rest of the meeting sang a hymn. When Mr Webb, dishevelled and hot, returned to the rostrum, a woman in the audience cried out, “You aro no Christian. You should have been gentle,” causing Mr Webb to lead in a prayer, in which he asked God “to forgive him for dealing roughly with some human beings.”

Mr Welil) told the Evangelist Conference at Highbury, London, on March jo, that until he experienced a vivid dream recently, after which he adopted religion, lto was a Communist organiser, having been specially trained at Moscow,