Word: evangelistic
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...silk evangelist decided that Government sponsorship was not the answer, but private enterprise might be. She signed up Abbot J. Copeland, a merchandising head of Cohama, biggest U.S. silk importer, got the title of Japan manager of Cohama, and resigned from SCAP...
...dread the prospect," says the current issue of the Protestant fortnightly Christianity and Crisis. The prospect: Evangelist Billy Graham's next crusade in Manhattan, scheduled for some time in 1957. Christianity and Crisis, edited by Theologians Reinhold Niebuhr and John C. Bennett, gives its reasons...
...well serve as a yeast to enliven the dormant spirituality of our nation . . . It is high time that our religious leaders turn to the task of making us better men and women. We need stirring sermons challenging us to good works as well as faith. We need a Catholic evangelist who will arouse us from our sloth of evil living. We need another Savonarola...
There was good reason for Evangelist Graham to smile, for seldom in his crowd-filled career had he met with such enthusiasm. Madras was clogged with out-of-towners seeking rooms; one group of 100 rode the train from Hyderabad four days and nights, and one man walked 400 miles to hear him. Caste was ignored in the stampede to see Billy. To an audience of 40,000 he spoke through two interpreters (one for the Telugu and one for the Tamil tongue...
...Evangelist Graham bluntly tackled color questions: "Christ was born between East and West. He was not as light as I am, and was not as dark as you." To the folks at home Billy reported: "I am taking my wife a sari, the world's most beautiful garment. I mean to turn her into an Indian." And in U.S. newspaper columns he wrote: "The people of India love and respect America." He added: "I have fallen so much in love with India that I can be its good ambassador in my travels round the world...