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EVELYN UNTON describes her experience when immediately closed down their striptease joint, she “found Christ.” She and her husband {Staff Photo by LenParness.)She’s a Witness for“It happened ut 3; 15 p.m. on Sauirday, April 4, 3970. We knell on our knees around the coffee table in our living room and asked Jesus Christ to change our lives.What this woman is doing Is called ' ‘witnessing for the Lord. ”“I just fell a natural flow from God and felt for the first time I was doing what he wanted me to dn. ” Mrs. Evelyn Union was describing how it felt lo be bom again/'She and her husband, Guy. were ihe burlesque pioneers of SanAntonio, running the Grwngute Club, 429 N. St. Mary’s, for 17yeare.Then, they found the Lord and “turned way away from worldy things/'“That's how the Devil can fool you/’ she said, leaning back in her chair at her cluLtered Central Park Mull jewelry store office. There were icars in her eyes us she described ihe event. Her misty blue eye shadow exaggerated the tears,1 thought I was being a Christian because I told the strippers to act like ladies. I told them to wearthe Lord’theatrical hose and not to spread their legs apart when ihey danced. I told them to just dance and get off the stage. There's no need to be vulgar.The Lintons gave up three homes (one with five bathrooms), two Cadillacs, furs, a ranch and a home on the lake. They now live in a c ot tage a t Ca ny on Lak u.“This past year was the roughest we’ve had,” she said. “But God has taught me more in the valley than He did in all those yeans on the mountaintop.
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San Antonio Light
San Antonio, Texas, US
Sun, Jan 16, 1977
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