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Aimee Semple McPherson was Christendom's most flamboyant evangelist...
Graham does not, however, see himself as a prophet like Isaiah and Jeremiah. "When I first heard myself called an evangelist, I resented it--I thought of Elmer Gantry. But I've come to like it. It comes from a Greek word meaning 'proclaimer'; an evangelist is a proclaimer of the good news that God loves us and wants to help...
Graham's solution to the growing crisis is purely religious. He refuses to classify himself politically. "I don't like people to label me liberal or conservative," he says. "I want to be all things to all men. That's St. Paul's phrase." The evangelist's ideologically balanced public statements make one aware that he is conscious of Paul's dictum. "I believe every word of the Bible, from Genesis to Revelations," he says, but again "the Bible isn't a scientific document; it's written for the common people, in language they can understand." And again, "I disagree...
...Dwight Moody once told a young Scottish convert to "go do something for the laboring people of Scotland;" the convert went on to found the British Labour Party. Graham sat back in his chair, looking towards the ceiling, his phenomenal nervous enegy no longer so obvious. "These men did evangelists' work, men like John Wesley, and Dwight L. Moody, and William Wilberforce. We've forgotten today how the evangelist is as important as the pastor and the teacher...
...evangelist will also hold a question-and-answer session in Lowell Lecture Hall Wednesday at 3 p.m. Thursday afternoon at the same time, Graham and members of his "team" will meet with Harvard and Radcliffe students at an informal tea in the Union...