Outside the enormous, white-domed Angelus Temple in Los Angeles last week, dust-streaked cars from two dozen states stood bumper to bumper. Inside, thousands of men & women, mostly middleaged, were having a wonderful time praying, singing or just looking. The national membership of the late Aimee Semple McPherson's Foursquare Gospel Church was celebrating its 25th anniversary.
If gilt-haired Sister Aimee herself could have been there she might have shouted a big Hallelujah. The temple she built in 1922 buzzed with people and activity. In one part of the main lobby visitors listened to...