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Gloom Prophets Haunt Saint Pat’s
By Joseph Modzelewiski, Daily News, New York
September 22, 1969, North America
Hundreds of Sunday churchgoers were mystified by the appearance outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral yesterday morning of 38 youths belonging to a strange religious cult.
Wearing wine-colored burlap robes, the demonstrators appeared to be in a trance as they riveted their blank stares on the façade of the cathedral for more than an hour.
All held long wooden staffs in their right hand and copies of the Old Testament in the left. Wooden yokes hung from their necks and the 28 men had small metal hoops on their left ears. The foreheads of the 10 girls were smudged with charcoal.
Police Are Puzzled
Police arrived at noon, but they also were at a loss to explain the significance of the group.
“They are the Children of “God mourning the death of America,” claimed John Treadwell, spokesman for the oddly costumed youths.
Treadwell said the group was protesting what he called the …
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The Age of Mystic Crystal Revelations!
Montreal, Canada
July 1, 1969, North America
The cars pulled up one by one, Arizona, Florida, California. Their license plates told the story of their journey, and the shouts of “Hallelujah! Told of their welcome arrival.
The travelers spilled out of the cars, and embraced the waiting group one by one—man hugging man, woman kissing woman, wife greeting long-awaited husband.
The Revolutionaries for Jesus were making one more stop on their self-appointed journey across the continent.
“God’s given us a message,” explained an intense young man. “He said ‘Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel.
Take Cathy, a young woman who had been a heroin addict for eight months when the Revolutionaries met her in a drug clinic in Miami.
“Now she’s turned to Jesus,” said Faith Dietrich, daughter of Rev. David Berg, a Texan preacher who founded the group.
She embraced Cathy, smiling warmly at her. “Praise the Lord.”
She took up the …
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Take Revolution on the Road in New Teen Evangelism
Salina Journal, Kansas
June 19, 1969, North America
Lurana Nolind uses folk music in a different type of youth revolution.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard C. Nolind, Tescott, now is Mrs. Jonathan Berg and a partner in an unusual teenage evangelistic campaign.
The Bergs head the Teens for Christ Midwest road team and consider themselves under orders to “spread this revolution for Jesus throughout the nation.”
“God has really changed me into a hard core missionary whose only purpose is the mission field,” Mrs. Berg wrote her parents. “And it’s so urgent that it be done now.”
The former Ottawa county “Junior Miss” and Kansas Wesleyan university student went to California to work with Teen Challenge, a program to help rehabilitate young drug addicts.
Once in California she decided to work with teens for Christ, which was seeking to “reach the hippy generation with Jesus.”
Her singing fits in with the Teens for Christ use of …
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