Word: churchmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Montgomery, Billy Graham never launches an attack unless he can be fairly sure in advance that his forces are superior to the enemy-the main enemy perhaps being indifference. Before Graham agrees to conduct a campaign in any given city, preliminary negotiations may go on for years (New Orleans churchmen first began talking about the current crusade in 1950). Graham must be sure that he has the backing of the top Protestant churches in the area, as well as the support of business and civic leaders. After he accepts an invitation, the local sponsoring committee is promptly presented with...
...convert's name on one of the cards sets off a chain reaction designed to lead the convert into permanent commitment in a local church (one reason why Graham, unlike many another evangelist, is popular with local churchmen). Next morning, a personal-looking letter from Billy Graham is mailed to the new convert. Later he is invited to another meeting and can order additional literature, known as an I.R. (for Instruction in Righteousness) Pack. Meanwhile, three duplicates of the "decision card'' are typed up, one for the current working file, one for the future follow-up file...
...known for a methodical sort of scholarship inherited from the theologians of 19th century Germany, it now intends to become an active leader of organized Protestant religion. To that end President Pusey and Acting Dean George Williams have been trying to collect a faculty of "men who are both churchmen and scholars." Their latest appointments...
This is a tall order for a religion that, only a few decades ago, seemed to many irrelevant to "progress." Certainly the churchmen at Evanston could not try to provide earthly salvation, for that would be blasphemy; the kingdom of God must be sought for its own sake. But neither could they escape the atmosphere of urgency that surrounded their meeting. For the crescendo of ecumenical conferences of which Evanston is the climax† tells of a renewed Christian hope and a hunger for unity. These forces have brought together men and traditions that centuries of Christian history had driven...
...refer to the Aug. 2 article . . . dealing with my recent remarks in Congress on the subject of the Iron Curtain churchmen who are delegates to the Second Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Evanston, Ill. . . . My speech was given as an answer to the State Department press release, and not the reverse, as your article would seem to indicate ... I have no fear of subversion from the Czechoslovak and Hungarian members [but] I question their ability to further resist the infiltration of the churches in their own lands even assuming [that] Communist control ... is not already complete...