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TRIGGER and the sawdus t trai l
A hot California sun beat down out side and inside the big tent on the comer of Washington and Hill in Los Angeles five thousand young sters fidgeted in their hard chairs. It was 10 A.M. and Saturday. Any other Saturday most of these youngsters would be cavorting in the cool waters of the Pacific or taking in a cowboy picture at a neighborhood theater. But today they were in the big tent. A few of the older children kicked nervously at the sawdust on the floor and almost everyone kept an anxious eye on the roped-off arena at the front. Then to the shrieking delight of the five thousand youngsters into the tent came film, TV and radio stars, Dale Evans, Roy Rogers and Trigger. The boisterous shrieks testi fied that this was what the kids had been waiting for. This Saturday morning meeting was part of the five-week long Christ For Greater Los Angeles evangelistic campaign sponsored early this sum mer by 300 Los Angeles area churches and led by Jack Shuler. At this par ticular Saturday meeting Roy Rogers and wife Dale Evans gave a touching testimony of their faith in the shed blood of Christ and the kids listened. When the altar call was given b e -. tween five and six hundred came for ward on a first time profession, e n d .
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