Word: evangelistic
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...over the 18 loudspeakers in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. The voice beat upon more than 18,000 people -seekers and servers of the Lord as well as the merely curious-and it etched itself upon the sliding ribbons of the tape recorders set up by radiomen. The evangelist of the mid-century set out last week on his toughest "crusade"-to bring salvation to New York's 8,000,000 sinners...
...problems. (Among the carefully drawn-up list of traits that disqualify applicants for counseling posts: "inability to communicate," argumentative or surly attitude, unkempt appearance, halitosis.) Of the applicants, 3,800 stuck the course to the end. 2,143 qualified as counselors, 350 were held in reserve. The counselors are Evangelist Graham's shock troops...
That is how the show biz weekly Variety good-humoredly told its readers about an extraordinary show that opens in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden this week: Evangelist Billy Graham's crusade for New York, a city he has sometimes regarded as a kind of Gomorrah-on-Hudson. Variety noted admiringly that "for sheer activity, traffic and buzz," his advance office in Manhattan "compares with the William Morris Agency," predicted that the crusade would be the biggest "full-chorus, hallelujah, oldtime religion, monster revival" since Billy Sunday's invasion of New York in 1917. Figures supplied...
...Montreat, N.C. Evangelist Billy Graham last week husbanded his strength for his biggest battle to date with the Devil-over New York City. On the battlefield itself, his advance guard lined up the captains and cohorts for the struggle ahead (May 15 to June 30, and perhaps longer). In 50 countries around the world groups affiliated with 1,900 Protestant churches kept up 24-hour chains of prayer for the big campaign. But from a Roman Catholic churchman came the warning: Catholics in heavily Catholic New York (2,136,000) should not listen to Billy Graham in person...
...soul, a heaven and hell beyond the grave, the necessity of personal repentance, of a personal Saviour. "So far, fine," says Father Kelly in the Homiletic & Pastoral Review. "But there is plentiful mixing of truth and error in his preaching on these points." And Kelly complains that Evangelist Graham leaves out entirely such cornerstones of the Catholic faith as the mediating power of the Virgin Mary, the sacrament of the Mass, the necessity of Baptism, and the unity of the church. "Billy's teachings about the Church are not the same as Christ's teachings...