For 22 years the ablest associate of the late Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday was Homer Alvan Rodeheaver, who played an old slide trombone which he bought for $4.50 while at Ohio Wesleyan University, led audiences in such rousing hymns as Brighten the Corner Where You Are! The decline of old-style evangelism and the death of Billy Sunday left Homer Rodeheaver less newsworthy but no less busy. Unctuous, large of frame, full of vigor at 55, he is much in demand as a speaker at gatherings of such evangelical bodies as Christian Endeavor....
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