Selected Bibliography And Endnotes

Series: Our Fathers Saw His Mighty Works

February 21, 2013 By Jonathan Anderson

Selected Bibliography

America’s Hour of Decision. Wheaton, IL: Van Kampen Press, 1951.

An Ongoing Revival. Warren, MN: Warren Sheaf Print, 1990, Harvey Dyrud, editor.

Appasamy, A.J. Write the Vision! Edwin Orr’s Thirty Years of Adventurous Service. London: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1964.

Baldwin, Ethel May, and David V. Benson. Henrietta Mears and How She Did It! Glendale, CA: Regal Books Division, G/L Publications, 1966.

Bickel, Ottomar E. Fishing for Souls. St. Paul, MN: Roller Coaster Press, 2000.

Burton, Louise. “The Lutheran Evangelistic Movement and its Place in American Christianity.” M.A. thesis, Wheaton College, 1994.

Busse, G.W. Even So Come: Sermons Delivered by the Rev. G.W. Busse at the Fourth Annual Mid-winter Evangelistic Conference January 9, 10 and 11, 1940. Minneapolis, MN: Lutheran Inter-Synodical Evangelistic Committee, 1940.

The Christian Warfare: Messages Delivered at the Tenth Anniversary Lutheran Deeper Life Conference, July 19-25, 1948. Minneapolis, MN: Lutheran Evangelistic Movement, 1949, Orloue N. Gisselquist and Arthur H. Grimstad, editors.

Conrad, Evald J. Meditations and Personal Notes. Published privately, 1985, Daniel E. Conrad and Eleonora C. Conrad, editors.

Dorsett, Mary. Revival at Wheaton! Wheaton, IL: International Awakening Press, 1994.

Evangelize. Monthly periodical published by the Lutheran Evangelistic Movement, May 1945 onward. Copies available at Luther Seminary Library in St. Paul, MN, and at the Association of Free Lutheran Congregation’s Francis W. Monseth Library in Plymouth, MN. Luther Seminary Library also contains copies of the other Lutheran periodicals cited within this work but not listed in detail in this selected bibliography.

Force, Maynard A. Assurance. Minneapolis, MN: Lutheran Evangelistic Movement, 1945.

Fuller, Daniel P. Give the Winds a Mighty Voice. Waco, TX: Word Books, 1972.

Gisselquist, Orloue N. Called to Preach: The Life and Ministry of Rev. J.O. Gisselquist, 1888-1968. Published privately, 1999.

Graham, Billy. Calling Youth to Christ. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1947.

Graham, Billy. Just As I Am: The Autobiography of Billy Graham. New York, NY: Harper Paperbacks, a division of Harper Collins Publishers, 1997.

Jannusch, Merton L. Ichabod? Has the Glory Left Lutheranism? Green Bay, WI: Merton L. Jannusch, 1988.

Jannusch, Merton L. Newly Found. Green Bay, WI: Merton L. Jannusch, 1971.

Larson, Mel. Youth For Christ: Twentieth Century Wonder. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1947.

Lindell, Paul J. (Messages on Mission from a Man Who Lived) In Stride With God. Minneapolis, MN: World Mission Prayer League, 1987, Anders B. Hanson, editor.

Lindsell, Harold. Park Street Prophet: A Life of Harold John Ockenga. Wheaton, IL: Van Kampen Press, 1951.

Lutheran Evangelistic Movement (LEM) archives. Housed in the Georg Sverdrup Archive room of the Association of Free Lutheran Congregation’s Francis W. Monseth Library in Plymouth, MN. Collection contains letters, books and booklets, committee and board minutes, conference brochures, newsletters, pictures, personal testimonials, and other sundry items. The following items are part of this collection:

Brotzler, E. “Lutheran Evangelistic Conference: January 5, 6, 7, 1937.” Detailed notes taken by Mr. Brotzler during the conference, later typed and mimeographed for distribution.

Minutes of the Lutheran Inter-Synodical Evangelistic Committee, 1937-1945.

Minutes of the LEM Executive Committee (a.k.a. Central Committee), 1945 onward.

Minutes of the LEM National Board, 1946 onward.

“Lutheran Deeper Life Conference Camp News” (exact title varied by year). Daily newsletter printed by the Lutheran Evangelistic Movement during its annual Deeper Life Conference, 1943, 1945 onward.

Annual report of the Lutheran Inter-Synodical Evangelistic Committee, 1940. Annual reports of the LEM 1952 onward are in the possession of the current director of the LEM.

A collection of audio recordings of the LEM’s “The Voice of Lutheran Evangelism” radio program featuring the preaching of Rev. Evald J. Conrad is contained in the ELCA Region 3 Archives housed at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, MN.

Lutheran Evangelistic Movement (LEM) Eastern Fellowship archives. Personal collection of Jonathan D. Anderson. Collection contains letters, conference brochures, hand-written notes of conference messages, cassette tapes of conference messages, newsletters, pictures, personal testimonials, and other sundry items. Letters exchanged between J.O. Gisselquist and Emerson J. Anderson from 1961 through 1967 are part of this collection.

Maier, Paul L. A Man Spoke, A World Listened. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1963.

Maier, Walter A. Let Us Return Unto the Lord: Radio Messages of the First Part of the Thirteenth Lutheran Hour. St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House, 1947.

Marty, Martin E. The New Shape of American Religion. New York, NY: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1958.

Marty, Martin E. Modern American Religion, Volume 3: Under God, Indivisible, 1941-1960. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Monsen, Marie. The Awakening: Revival in China 1927-1937. Elkhart, IN: Strategic Press, reprinted from Marie Monsen, Awakening, 1962.

Orr, J. Edwin. The Flaming Tongue: The Impact of Twentieth Century Revivals. Chicago, IL: Moody Press, 1973.

Orr, J. Edwin. Full Surrender. London: Marshall, Morgan and Scott, 1951.

Orr, J. Edwin. Good News in Bad Times: Signs of Revival. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1953.

Orr, J. Edwin. The Inside Story of the Hollywood Christian Group. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1955.

Orr, J. Edwin. My All, His All. Wheaton, IL: International Awakening Press, 1989.

Orr, J. Edwin. The Re-Study of Revival and Revivalism. Pasadena, CA: School of World Missions, 1981.

Orr, J. Edwin. This is the Victory: 10,000 Miles of Miracle in America. London: Marshall, Morgan and Scott, 1936.

Pollock, John. Billy Graham: The Authorized Biography. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966.

Revival in Our Time: The Story of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Campaigns. Wheaton, IL: Van Kampen Press, 1950.

Rosell, Garth M. The Surprising Work of God: Harold John Ockenga, Billy Graham, and the Rebirth of Evangelicalism. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group, 2008.

Tengbom, Mildred. (The World Mission Prayer League: Its Beginnings) The Spirit of God was Moving. Minneapolis, MN: World Mission Prayer League, 1985.

World Mission Prayer League archives. Housed at WMPL headquarters in Minneapolis, MN. Collection includes papers of John Carlsen and copies of periodicals The South American Mission Prayer League Bulletin and Mission Prayer Banner.

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Endnotes

The label NKJV throughout this book signifies Scripture taken from The Holy Bible, New King James Version.

The label KJV throughout this book signifies Scripture taken from The Holy Bible, Authorized King James Version.

Chapter 1 - What God Has Done

Title taken from Numbers 23:23 NKJV.

1. Marty, The New Shape of American Religion, 14-15.

2. Marty, Under God, Indivisible, 279.

3. Fuller, Give the Winds a Mighty Voice, 149-150.

4. Maier, A Man Spoke, A World Listened, 281.

5. Ibid., 303.

6. Ibid., 305 (italics added).

7. Fuller, Give the Winds a Mighty Voice, 171.

8. “Annual Bestsellers, 1950-1959: Rankings from Bowker’s Annual/Publisher’s Weekly,”

https://www3.isrl.illinois.edu/~unsworth/courses/bestsellers/best50.cgi, accessed June 2009.

9. Orr, Good News in Bad Times, 254.

10. Ibid., 32-44.

11. Claude Jenkins, quoted in Orr, Good News in Bad Times, 38.

12. Ibid., 40-41.

13. Mel Larson, “Tasting Revival – at Los Angeles,” in Revival in Our Time, 15.

14. Ibid., 10, 12.

15. Ibid., 16.

16. Ibid., 13-14.

17. Ibid., 11.

18. Revival in Our Time, 31.

19. “42 Hours of Repentance,” Time, 20 February 1950.

20. Orr, Good News in Bad Times, 54.

21. Ibid., 58.

22. Ibid., 58, 85.

23. Ibid., 180.

24. Ibid., 193.

25. Ibid., 88-90.

26. Graham, Just As I Am, 239.

27. Marty, The New Shape of American Religion, 83.

28. “Under God,” Time, 17 May 1954.

29. “Majestic Minimum,” Time, 20 June 1955.

30. “In God We Trust,” Time, 6 August 1956.

31. Orr, The Inside Story of the Hollywood Christian Group, 20.

32. Ibid., 55-57.

33. Ibid., 20.

34. Ibid., 132.

35. Ibid.

36. Baldwin and Benson, Henrietta Mears and How She Did It! 231-232.

37. Jerry Strober and Ruth Tomczak, Jerry Falwell: Aflame for God (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1979), 21-22.

38. Billy Graham, foreword to D. James Kennedy, Evangelism Explosion (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 1970).

39. D. James Kennedy, foreword to Coral Ridge Ministries undated republication of, Fulton Oursler, The Greatest Story Ever Told, 1949.

Chapter 2 - God Has Chosen The Weak

1. Archibald Alexander, Biographical Sketches of the Founder and Principal Alumni of the Log College (Philadelphia, PA: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1851), 6.

2. Orr, Good News in Bad Times, 251-252, 254.

3. W.E. Paul, “The Story of Mission Farms,” Evangelize, June 1948.

4. W.E. Klawitter, “Farewell, Mission Farms!” Evangelize, April 1962.

5. W.E. Klawitter, “See You At Medicine Lake,” Evangelize, June 1962.

6. “Constitution of the Lutheran Evangelistic Movement,” 1951.

7. Gisselquist, Called to Preach, 103, 122, 130-131.

8. Sources for Scotvold’s life until the birth of the LEM are:

a. C.S. Lystig, “Christ Is Able! Introducing a Biographical Sketch of Evangelist Enoch Scotvold,” Evangelize, July 1959.

b. C.S. Lystig, “Still Roaming in the Far Country: Part II of a Biographical Sketch of Evangelist Enoch Scotvold,” Evangelize, August 1959.

c. C.S. Lystig, “Christ is Able! Part III of a Biographical Sketch of Evangelist Enoch Scotvold,” Evangelize, September 1959.

d. Peder Nordsletten, “Tribute to a Friend,” Evangelize, October 1961.

e. Enoch L. Scotvold, 1 February 1961 letter to pastor Caroll Satre, reprinted in “We Thank God Upon Every Remembrance of Enoch L. Scotvold,” Evangelize, June 1961.

f. C.S. Lystig, “Christ is Able! Part IV of a Biographical Sketch of Evangelist Enoch Scotvold,” Evangelize, October 1959.

g. C.S. Lystig, “Christ is Able! Part V of a Biographical Sketch of Evangelist Enoch Scotvold,” Evangelize, November 1959.

h. C.S. Lystig, “Evangelism Trends - Old and New: Concluding article of Christ is Able, biographical sketch of Evangelist Enoch Scotvold,” Evangelize, December 1959.

i. Gisselquist, Called to Preach, 71-73, 81-82, 115-116, 183 (note no. 25).

j. Thilda Wennes Egertson, Carrie Scotvold: A Faithful Witness (Hollywood, CA: The Burden Bearers, no date) sixteen-page pamphlet, LEM archives.

k. Rev. and Mrs. H.O. Egertson, “Enoch Scotvold The Lay Evangelist,” unmarked article, LEM archives.

9. Sources for Scotvold’s life from this point onward and for the birth of the LEM are:

a. Orloue N. Gisselquist, Called to Preach, 116-117

b. Orloue N. Gisselquist, interview by Jonathan D. Anderson, hand-written notes, St. Paul, MN, 7 July 2007.

c. Evald J. Conrad, “We Thank God Upon Every Remembrance of Enoch L. Scotvold,” Evangelize, June 1961.

d. Evald J. Conrad, “Notes and News,” Evangelize, June 1958.

e. Evald J. Conrad, “A Testimony and a Challenge,” Evangelize, July 1948.

f. Evald J. Conrad, “The Lutheran Evangelistic Movement,” Evangelize, May 1945.

10. Gissselquist, Called to Preach, 118.

11. Gisselquist, Called to Preach, 117.

12. Gisselquist, Called to Preach, 128.

The latter half of the quote beginning with, “These are people . . . ,” is a quote (with minor alterations) from:

C.F.W. Walther, The Proper Distinction Between Law and Gospel (St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House, 1929), 195.

13. C.S. Lystig, “Christ is Able! Part V of a Biographical Sketch of Evangelist Enoch Scotvold,” Evangelize, November 1959.

14. C.S. Lystig, “Still Roaming in the Far Country, Part II of a Biographical Sketch of Evangelist Enoch Scotvold,” Evangelize, August 1959.

Chapter 3 - Then Sinners Shall Be Converted To You

1. E.L. Scotvold, Joseph L. Stump, J.M. Halvorson, John Carlsen, letter to “Co-workers for Christ,” 2 December 1936.

2. A.L. Lawrence, letter to Evald J. Conrad, 28 December 1936.

3. Brotzler, “Lutheran Evangelistic Conference,” LEM archives.

4. E.L. Scotvold, Joseph L. Stump, J.M. Halvorson, John Carlsen, letter to “Co-workers for Christ,” 2 December 1936.

5. “30 Years Ago at Mid-Winter,” Evangelize, January 1966.

6. Minnesota Climatology Working Group, “Daily Weather Records for the Twin Cities: 1930’s,” https://climate.umn.edu/doc/twin_cities/msp1930's.htm, accessed January 2010.

7. Sources for the January 1937 conference, except where noted otherwise, are:

a. Brotzler, “Lutheran Evangelistic Conference,” LEM archives.

b. Evangelistic Committee minutes, 6 September 1937, introductory remarks.

8. Monsen, The Awakening.

9. Gisselquist, Called to Preach, 97.

Chapter 4 - While They Communed Together

1. “Fourth Annual Report of Lutheran Inter-Synodical Evangelistic Committee 1940.”

2. Evangelistic Committee minutes, 6 September 1937.

3. Ibid.

4. Evald J. Conrad, “The Vision of Bible Conferences,” Evangelize, January 1946.

5. Evangelistic Committee minutes, 6 September 1937.

6. The source for Gisslequist’s life, except where noted otherwise, is:

Gisselquist, Called to Preach, 7-8, 10, 12-14, 16-23, 27, 31-32, 43, 54-55, 58, 66-67, 71, 73, 82-83, 94-97, 99, 110, 154-156.

7. Robert Lloyd Lee, A New Springtime (Minneapolis, MN: Heirloom Press, 1997), 7.

8. J.O. Gisselquist, letter to Emerson J. Anderson, 26 October 1961.

9. J.O. Gisselquist, letter to Emerson J. Anderson, 9 November 1965.

10. Orloue N. Gisselquist, interview by Jonathan D. Anderson, hand-written notes, St. Paul, MN, 7 July 2007.

11. Evangelistic Committee minutes, 14 January 1938.

12. Ibid.

13. “First Eagle Grove Week of the Lutheran Inter-Synodical Evangelistic Conference Aug. 28-Sept. 4, 1938,” advertisement brochure.

14. Evangelistic Committee minutes, resolution, 3 September 1938.

15. “First Eagle Grove Week . . . ,” advertisement brochure.

16. Ibid.

17. Ibid.

18. Attendees of the 2009 Lutheran Evangelistic Movement Eagle Grove Conference, interviews by Jonathan D. Anderson, type-written notes, Eagle Grove, IA, 13 September 2009.

19. Evangelistic Committee minutes, resolution, 3 September 1938.

20. Ibid.

21. “First Eagle Grove Week . . . ,” advertisement brochure.

22. Attendees of the 2009 Lutheran Evangelistic Movement Eagle Grove Conference, interviews by Jonathan D. Anderson, type-written notes, Eagle Grove, IA, 13 September 2009.

23. “First Eagle Grove Week . . . ,” advertisement brochure.

24. Evangelistic Committee minutes, 3 September 1938.

And, Evangelistic Committee minutes, resolution, 7 September 1939.

25. Evangelistic Committee minutes, 3 September 1938.

26. Ibid.

And, Evangelistic Committee minutes, resolution, 7 September 1939.

27. “Second Eagle Grove Week of the Lutheran Inter-Synodical Evangelistic Conference August 27th to September 3rd, 1939,” advertisement brochure.

28. Ibid.

29. Lillian Aarsvold, interview by Jonathan D. Anderson, type-written notes, Kasson, MN, 25 October 2010.

30. “Third Annual Eagle Grove Week August 25th to September 1st, 1940,” advertisement brochure.

31. “Fourth Annual Eagle Grove Week August 24th to 31st, 1941,” advertisement brochure.

32. “Fifth Annual Eagle Grove Week August 30 - September 6, 1942,” advertisement brochure.

33. Lillian Aarsvold, interview by Jonathan D. Anderson, type-written notes. Kasson, MN, 25 October 2010.

34. Evald J. Conrad, “The Lutheran Evangelistic Movement,” Evangelize, May 1945.

35. J.O. Gisselquist, “Reports on Conference at Eagle Grove, IA,” Evangelize, October 1946.

36. Evald J. Conrad, “The Lutheran Evangelistic Movement,” Evangelize, May 1945.

37. “Eagle Grove Conference,” Evangelize, October 1947.

38. Advertisement brochures for the various Bible Conferences cited.

39. James Peterson, letter to Jonathan D. Anderson, 4 August 2008.

Chapter 5 - Born, Not Of The Will Of Man, But Of God

1. “Pastor J.M. Halvorson,” Lutheran Messenger, 10 April 1956.

2. Robert Lloyd Lee, A New Springtime (Minneapolis, MN: Heirloom Press, 1997), 79-80.

3. Halvorson’s testimony, translated from the original by David A. Churness, is from:

Beretning Om Den Lutherske Frikirkes 7de Aarsmode (Minneapolis, MN: Free Church Book Concerns, 1903), 186-188.

4. Who’s Who Among Pastors In All The Norwegian Lutheran Synods Of America 1843-1927 (Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Publishing House, 1928), 210.

5. Ibid.

And, Annual Report of the Lutheran Free Church 44th Annual Conference (Minneapolis, MN: The Lutheran Free Church Publishing Company, 1940), 7, 19.

6. Lutheran Messenger, 15 January 1925.

7. S.T., “In Memoriam,” Lutheran Messenger, 10 April 1956.

8. Beretning Om Den Lutherske Firkirke 36te Aarsmote (Minneapolis, MN: The Lutheran Free Church Publishing Company, 1932), 12.

9. Ibid.

10. Annual Report of the Lutheran Free Church 38th Annual Conference (Minneapolis, MN: The Lutheran Free Church Publishing Company, 1934), 17.

11. “Altar, Hearth, and Campus,” Lutheran Messenger, 1 April 1933.

12. Evangelistic Committee minutes, undated (circa February or March 1939).

13. S.T., “In Memoriam,” Lutheran Messenger, 10 April 1956.

14. Harvey Dyrud, “The Revival Movement Continues,” in An Ongoing Revival, 6-7.

15. “Altar, Hearth, and Campus,” Lutheran Messenger, 15 April 1933.

16. Amos Dyrud, “A Personal Testimony by Amos Dyrud,” in An Ongoing Revival, 12.

And, Valborg Huglen, “Spiritual Influences,” in An Ongoing Revival, 27.

17. “Altar, Hearth, and Campus,” Lutheran Messenger, 1 May 1933.

18. Annual Report of the Lutheran Free Church 38th Annual Conference (Minneapolis, MN: The Lutheran Free Church Publishing Company, 1934), 17.

19. Annual Report of the Lutheran Free Church 40th Annual Conference (Minneapolis, MN: The Lutheran Free Church Publishing Company, 1936), 19.

20. Ibid.

And, Annual Report of the Lutheran Free Church 41st Annual Conference (Minneapolis, MN: The Lutheran Free Church Publishing Company, 1937), 19.

21. In Memory of John Carlsen (Minneapolis, MN: Global Gospel Fellowship, Inc., October 1963), four-page pamphlet, WMPL archives.

22. E.C. Reinertson, “Wanted - 50,000 Evangelists,” Lutheran Herald, 18 March 1947.

23. Raymond S. Rosales, “Forty Years Ago,” Fellow Workers, May 1977.

24. Tengbom, The Spirit of God was Moving, 24.

25. Evald J. Conrad, “Days of Beginnings,” Mission Prayer Banner, July-August 1945.

26. E.C. Reinertson, “Wanted - 50,000 Evangelists,” Lutheran Herald, 18 March 1947.

27. Evald J. Conrad, “Days of Beginnings,” Mission Prayer Banner, July-August 1945.

28. E.C. Reinertson, “Wanted - 50,000 Evangelists,” Lutheran Herald, 18 March 1947.

29. Ibid.

30. Tengbom, The Spirit of God was Moving, 23-24.

31. Ibid., 24.

32. 1930 U.S. Census.

33. Evald J. Conrad, “Days of Beginnings,” Mission Prayer Banner, July-August 1945.

34. Tengbom, The Spirit of God was Moving, 24.

35. Evald J. Conrad, “Days of Beginnings,” Mission Prayer Banner, July-August 1945.

36. E.C. Reinertson, “Wanted - 50,000 Evangelists,” Lutheran Herald, 18 March 1947.

37. In Memory of John Carlsen, four-page pamphlet.

38. Stanley R. Olson, “Birth of a Mission,” Fellow Workers, May 1977.

39. Raymond S. Rosales, “Forty Years Ago,” Fellow Workers, May 1977.

40. Stanley R. Olson, “Birth of a Mission,” Fellow Workers, May 1977.

41. Ibid.

42. John Carlsen, “This Is the Lord’s Doing,” Mission Prayer Banner, March 1945.

43. Stanley R. Olson, “Birth of a Mission,” Fellow Workers, May 1977.

44. Tengbom, The Spirit of God was Moving, 24.

45. Ibid., 25.

46. C.O. Granlund, “Mysterious Ways,” Mission Prayer Banner, December 1944.

47. Ernest R. Weinhardt, “Our Field,” The South American Mission Prayer League Bulletin, November 1938.

48. Raymond S. Rosales, “Forty Years Ago,” Fellow Workers, May 1977.

49. E.C. Reinertson, “Wanted - 50,000 Evangelists,” Lutheran Herald, 18 March 1947.

And, Evald J. Conrad, “The Lutheran Evangelistic Movement,” Evangelize, May 1945.

50. Tengbom, The Spirit of God was Moving, 26.

51. Tengbom, The Spirit of God was Moving, 27.

52. Evald J. Conrad, “Days of Beginnings,” Mission Prayer Banner, July-August 1945.

53. “History of the World Mission Prayer League,” handwritten manuscript labeled “Reviewed by John Carlsen,” WMPL archives.

54. The source for Carlsen’s revival account is:

John Carlsen, letter to “My dear coworkers for Christ,” 8 June 1937.

55. John Carlsen, “Words from the Field,” The South American Mission Prayer League Bulletin, December 1937.

56. Tengbom, The Spirit of God was Moving.

57. John Carlsen, letter to “My dear friend and coworker for Christ,” 3 March 1938.

58. John Carlsen, letter to “Dear coworkers in the homeland.” October 1938.

59. Sources for Stump’s life are:

a. Omar Gjerness, “Great Preachers I Have Known: The Pastor Who Was Converted,” Faith and Fellowship, June 1998.

b. Joann Stump Jergensen, He’s The Real Thing: The Conversion Story of Joseph Stump (no publication information, no date), fifteen-page pamphlet, LEM archives.

c. Clifford R. Anderson, “How the Lutheran Evangelistic Movement Started,” letter to Louise Burton, ca. 1997, LEM archives.

60. Omar Gjerness, “Great Preachers I Have Known: The Pastor Who Was Converted,” Faith and Fellowship, June 1998.

Gjerness pastored a Lutheran church in the New York City borough of Brooklyn from 1945-1949.

Chapter 6 - Yes, The Deep Things Of God

Title taken from I Corinthians 2:10 NKJV

1. “Conference Highlights, 1939-1947,” Evangelize, June 1948.

2. Ibid.

3. Evangelistic Committee minutes, 13 January 1939.

4. Evald J. Conrad, “The Lutheran Evangelistic Movement,” Evangelize, May 1945.

And, Evald J. Conrad, “Deeper Life Conference,” Evangelize, June 1949.

5. Evald J. Conrad, “Deeper Life Conference,” Evangelize, June 1949.

6. Evangelistic Committee minutes, 14 March 1939.

And, “Reviewing Our Deeper Life Conferences 1939-1957,” Evangelize, June 1958.

7. Evangelistic Committee minutes, 17 February 1939.

8. Sources for the story of Mission Farms and the description of its facilities are:

a. W.E. Paul, “The Story of Mission Farms,” Evangelize, June 1948.

b. Hazel Thomson, The Mission Farms Story (no publication information other than “Reprinted from Moody Monthly by permission,” no date) eight-page pamphlet, LEM archives.

c. “Mission Farms On Medicine Lake,” 1939 advertisement brochure.

d. “Welcome To The Lutheran Deeper Life Conference At Mission Farms . . . July 24-30, 1939,” advertisement brochure.

e. “Lutheran Deeper Life Conference Camp News,” Tuesday, 20 July 1943.

f. Pictures contained in The Christian Warfare.

g. Pictures contained in “Sixth Annual Lutheran Deeper Life Conference At Mission Farms On Medicine Lake, July 17-24, 1944,” advertisement brochure.

9. Evangelistic Committee minutes, 14 March 1939.

10. Evangelistic Committee minutes, 17 March 1939.

11. G.W. Busse, letter to “Dear fellow-servant of Christ,” April 1939.

12. Evangelistic Committee minutes, 17 March 1939.

13. Evangelistic Committee minutes, 20 April 1939.

14. Evangelistic Committee minutes, 13 July 1939.

15. “Welcome To The Lutheran Deeper Life Conference At Mission Farms . . . July 24-30, 1939,” advertisement brochure.

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Selected Bibliography And Endnotes