Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like a combination of Babylon, Sodom and imperial Rome, New York lies waiting for a man of God to bring the city to its knees. That, at any rate, is the way Billy Graham sees it. Ever since he began his worldwide ministry, Evangelist Graham has catalogued New York City as a citadel of Satan he would have to tackle some day. He has decided to begin this spring. Billy and his twelve-man team have signed up Madison Square Garden from May 15 through mid-October to preach salvation to New Yorkers as he has preached it in London...
Texas. Former U.S. Senator Price Daniel, taking over a scandal-splotched administration from Governor Allan Shivers, invited Evangelist Billy Graham to Austin for a precedent-making prayer breakfast, at which Democrat Daniel announced that he would apply "Christian principles to problems of government and politics." His ambition, even greater than being President of the U.S., said Daniel with tears welling in his eyes, "is to be a good governor for all the people of Texas...
...Evangelist Charles Potter, 45, was in high gear last week on an experiment called the North Birmingham Industrial Crusade. Through a three-square-mile area of dour, industrial Birmingham, Potter and his fellow crusaders are swarming in a "saturation campaign" designed to test the chances of evangelizing the segment of Britain that Billy Graham largely failed to reach-the workers. Potter's plan is not to rack up as many "decisions for Christ" as possible, but to stimulate discussion along Christian lines, eventually organize "Christian cells in the factories-Communism in reverse...
...Adventist leaders gave Eternity's Reporter Martin when he visited their headquarters at Takoma Park outside Washington, D.C. On issue after issue he found them hewing to the line of conservative Protestantism, not insisting on peculiarly Adventist traditions as necessary for all Christians. Stirred by what he heard, Evangelist Leader Barnhouse held a conference with top Adventists at his Pennsylvania farm. Wrote he: "We are delighted to do justice to a much maligned group of sincere believers, and in our minds and hearts take them out of the group of utter heretics like the Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons...
...Billy Graham, evangelist: "There is no doubt that we are experiencing the great religious renaissance in American history. However, there seems to be little evidence of increased personal morality . .. To become a church member in America is easy, too easy! ... It must be remembered, though, that in the Wesleyan Revival of the 18th century there was a time lag of nearly a quarter of a century between the preaching . . . and the impact on the social life of Britain...