Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stadium), he wound up his three-month campaign with two open-air meetings. At London's White City Stadium 67,000 came to hear him, and at Wembley, a few hours later, about 120,000 turned out - more than had come there to the 1948 Olympic games. When Evangelist Graham called on them to step forward and "receive Christ as your Lord and Master and Saviour," 2,038 surged out of their seats at White City and 2,022 at Wembley, making the day's total of 4,060 "decisions...
...with their own ministers. What the long-term effect will be on England's, anemic spiritual life will take time to appraise, but ministers who get about the country already report a heavy increase in church attendance and collections. And the clergy of England, at first skeptical about Evangelist Graham, are now warmly grateful: last week 2,300 of them gathered at Westminster for a farewell lunch to Graham. After the Wembley meeting, the Archbishop of Canterbury himself pronounced the benediction...
British Actor Leonard Sachs, who, like Wesley, stands 5 ft. 2 in., bears an astonishing likeness to the many preserved portraits of his hero. But hero worship creeps in, and Evangelist Wesley is too often depicted as an 18th century version of Tough Guy James Cagney-deflating the dandies of Bath, puncturing the pomposities of the Anglican Bishop of Bristol, brushing off a highwayman, slicing through a murderous mob of Cornish fisherfolk. In general, the film lacks the dramatic effectiveness of the Lutherans' successful Martin Luther (TIME, Sept. 14), but it should be a popular and acceptable program piece...
...hall, but Pit sat down by himself to think it over. He felt far from being a Christian, decided to do nothing about his pledge, just wait and see what would happen. What happened was that the local Episcopalian minister, who got Pitney's pledge card from Evangelist Sunday, spoke to his mother, and Pitney honored his word by joining the church. "If it hadn't been for that, I don't know when I'd have joined, if ever," he says...
...Evangelist Graham spends his afternoons as well as his evenings spreading the word. He also averages a speech a day to civic groups, and reaps more week-end invitations from British lords and ladies than he can possibly accept. "I am thrilled," says Billy, "and tremendously humbled by the thought of what has been achieved by God's will...