Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...trip to India for a month's preaching, Evangelist Billy Graham, in Louisville for a laymen's conference at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, got a phone call from Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Summoned to Washington, he reported, to confer with Dulles and President Eisenhower, Graham canceled a sermon ("Our Christian Heritage"), hopped a plane that evening. Next day, although he missed seeing Ike, Religious Diplomat Graham emerged from an hour's chat with Dulles in the Secretary's Georgetown home. He had got a solid briefing on India, told waiting newsmen that Foster Dulles...
...Newscaster Richard T. Sutcliffe, associate director of press, radio & television for the United Lutheran Church in Amer ica, broadcast his list of the ten top religious news stories of 1955: 1) the illness, recovery and vision of Pope Pius XII, 2) Christian missionaries released by Red China, 3) Evangelist Billy Graham's sweep of Western Europe, 4) Dictator Peron's "failure to choke Argentine Roman Catholics," 5) Princess Margaret's stand for the "indissolubility" of Christian marriage, 6) Lutheran heresy trials, 7) collapse of negotiations for the proposed merger between northern and southern Presbyterians, 8) indecision...
Died. Homer ("The Musical Missionary") Rodeheaver, 75, trombone-playing musical director for 22 years for the late Evangelist Billy Sunday, composer of gospel songs (Then Jesus Came); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Winona Lake...