Word: evangelist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Billy did not reply, but for a time tempers boiled in statements and counterstatements between Nigerian Christian and Nigerian Moslem. This week things quieted down as Evangelist Graham took some time off for rest and a trip to visit Dr. Albert Schweitzer in Lambar...
...volunteer: comely Divorcee Eleanor Searle Whitney, ex-wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, onetime choir soloist in Dover, Ohio, who became one of Billy's most faithful followers during his New York City Crusade in 1957, when she rounded up a Bible class of her Long Island friends for Evangelist Graham to address in private sessions. After a quick tiger-shoot in Nepal and a swing through Iran, Eleanor Whitney let it be known last week that she intends to join Graham, possibly to help by her musical know-how during the remaining weeks of the trip...
...Future missionaries will see conversions following every sermon," wrote Africa's famed Christian trail blazer, David Livingstone. "We prepare the way for them." If he had returned to his Dark Continent last week, Missionary Livingstone might have thought that his prophecy was coming true; Evangelist Billy Graham had begun a seven-week "safari for souls" through Africa, and was using methods to attract "decisions for Christ" that would have astonished the dedicated Scot...
...Evangelist Graham's safari began at Monrovia, capital of Liberia, where he was welcomed by Vice President William Tolbert, acting as "crusade chairman" in Liberia. Said President William V. S. Tubman : "We expect the souls of people here to be watered, refreshed and blessed...
Died. Charles Manuel ("Daddy") Grace, 78, Portuguese-born Negro evangelist who whipped the adoring members of his House of Prayer for All People to a frenzy by a flow of incomprehensible oratory, a toss of his richly curled tresses, a wave of his 5-in.-long fingernails painted red, white and blue; collected enough money by the ritual of sitting in the "money well" or forming the "Sweet Daddy Grace Line" to afford a coffee plantation in Brazil, a chicken farm in Cuba, a cosmetic outfit that sells Daddy Grace Cold Cream ; exuded so much love of a sort that...