"That
evening stopped in at Constitution Hall to watch Homer Rodeheaver lead the
singing at the Youth for Christ rally.... I'd like to know who runs the Youth
for Christ movement. They distributed
some ferocious anti-New Deal propaganda before the show. It may be a political group hiding under the
cloak of religion. Dr. Bob Jones, who
apparently spear heads the movement, practically hypnotized the audience in his
10 minute pep talk. The organization belied its name. Instead of youths, the audience was top heavy
with white heads - or at least bald ones - the kind who believe in
audience-participation religion. They
punctuated Dr. Jones speech with shouts of 'That's right, Bob' and 'A
men.')"
--Letter from my father, Washington, D.C., to his family, Bloomington, Kans., Sunday, May
19, 1946.
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