EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1900; ULDINE MABELLE UTLEY P/11

 

In this story I will focus on a woman named Uldine Mabelle Utley. She lived from 1912 -1995. Uldine was born in Durant, Oklahoma, USA. Her parents were Azie Herbert Utley and Hattie Ellen Bray Utley. Her father was an electrician, a farmer and a postmaster while the family lived in Colorado.

Uldine had a conversion experience in 1921, inspired by the preaching of Aimee Semple McPherson while she was living in Fresno, California. Within two years Uldine was preaching across the United States, and at the age of fourteen she preached to a crowd of 14,000 people at Madison Square Garden. 

In 1928, Uldine married salesman Wilbur Eugene Langkop but they eventually divorced. 

In 1935, Uldine was ordained by the Methodist Episcopal Church. She was called "the Joan of Arc of the modern religious world." She was also called a "second Billy Sunday" and, as a young woman, "the ingenue of evangelism."

Uldine died in 1995, at the age of 83.