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...They, along with the staff of the city Youth Board, are the reason why 1960 has seen only ten teenage gang killings, compared with 23 a year ago. Y.D.I. is essentially Vaus's baby. An experienced crook, Jim Vaus in 1949 got religion after meeting Billy Graham, turned evangelist himself, wrote a moderately successful book titled Why I Quit Syndicated Crime. His new vocation took him to East Harlem, where he became convinced that he could turn his talents to more practical purpose than pulpitry. Moving his family from the West Coast to Tarrytown, Vaus rounded up some...
...Aiden's teacher-training college near Dogura, young George Ambo felt the first stirrings of a call to the priesthood, and at the same time attracted the attention of Anglican churchmen, who sent him off traveling through the villages with white missionaries as a teacher and evangelist...
Fresh from his tent outside Berlin's Red sector where he wound up his , successful German crusade. Evangelist Billy Graham moved into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week. The message Madison of repentance and salvation was much the same as in his New York Crusade three years ago-but the words were different...
...anything but a barrier to Billy-talking through an interpreter, he suggests, gives a his English-speaking hearers more of a chance to think. With the Rev. Rogelio Archilla of Manhattans Dewitt Reformed Church panting through a skilfull rapid-fire translation on the opposite side of the platform. Evangelist Graham kept the pace fast and the presure high. "You have made a great cultural contribution to New York " he told them, "but now you must help throw back the forces of evil, in this city . . . Perhaps the Lord has allowed you to come to America* for this reason. Many churches...
...elected in 1951 and 1952. He is a member of the executive committee of the Baptist World Alliance, vetoes dancing but smokes cigars. When Negroes come to his church, he lets them stay but on occasion labels their "kneel-ins" provocative and "an exhibition of egotism." A fundamentalist and evangelist who complains that the modern church microphone is "a gadget of the devil, it's bugging me," Grey insists that "spineless and convictionless preaching is contaminating the land" and that Baptists must beware of becoming "ritualistic, formal, cold and dead, like so many other decadent denominations." He characterizes Southern...