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Declining to join, the Rev. Henry Horn of University Lutheran Church said yesterday "I don't want my work identified with what I feel is only a 'revival' rather than an honest approach to the twentieth century." Horn felt that the evangelist would only antagonize many students...
...Evangelist Billy Graham has spent the better part of the past five years carrying his crusades for Christ overseas, to Latin America, Australia, Korea, England, Germany. "Something is always breaking out somewhere," he says. Right now, as Graham sees it, things are breaking out in the U.S. Taking stock of the nation's spiritual climate, he decided that the U.S. was "in the worst state of spiritual decline and immorality in its history," and that he was needed more urgently at home than abroad. "I have canceled everything outside the U.S. The America I see now is so different...
...followed by the fussy gropings of an alcoholic. The founder of the Quakers, George Fox, has a vision of blood flowing through the streets of Lichfield (where Diocletian slaughtered 1,000 Christians), and strides barefoot through the city, crying: "Woe to the bloody city of Lichfield!" The doughty little evangelist Billy Bray hears the Lord speaking to him. "Worship me with clean lips," the Lord thunders. In ecstasy, Billy stomps on his favorite pipe, muttering solemnly: "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust...
Among Protestants, Evangelist Billy Graham pronounced himself "shocked" by the decision. "I don't believe that a small minority should rule the majority of the people." Said California's Protestant Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike: "The result of the decision is not neutrality but an imposition upon the public school system of a particular perspective on reality, namely, secularism by default, which is as much an 'ism' as any other...
Symbol of Unity. As Pope, Angelo Roncalli took the name of John, partly because it reminded him of John the Baptist, the precursor of the Lord, and of the other John, the beloved disciple and evangelist. Montini's choice was equally significant. "The name is a program in itself," exclaimed one Vatican cleric. Clearly, Pope Paul intended to recall the great Apostle to the Gentiles, who, said the editor of L'Osservatore Romano, is "a symbol of ecumenical unity, venerated by Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox Christians." It was St. Paul who internationalized the early church; it was Paul...