Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baptist Evangelist Billy Graham agreed. Birth control, he said, is one of the ways of coping with the "terrifying and tragic" problem of overpopulation; there is nothing in Scripture that prohibits its responsible use, and most Americans practice it, "whether they are Protestants or Roman Catholics...
...Bhengu set himself to reduce crime in Johannesburg by 25%. He is still far short of his goal, but the attempt itself is remarkable in a frightened city (pop. 1,000,000) where 100,000 firearms are privately owned and virtually every house has a watchdog. In his preaching, Evangelist Bhengu is careful not to set up a kind of reverse color line. White preachers, he tells his native listeners, have the word too. "When you get hold of a bottle of gin. it comes in a white bottle. It tastes good. Sometimes you pour some into a black bottle...
...Nkulunkulu [Surrender your arms and yourself to God]," he continues, and a pile begins to grow at his feet-knives, blackjacks, brass knuckles (natives are forbidden to own firearms), and quantities of stolen goods. At one meeting police carted away three vanloads, and it is not unusual for Evangelist Bhengu to end up by walking down to the police station hand in hand with someone on the wanted list...
...Spirit of God. Evangelist Bhengu is the grandson of a Zulu chief. His father became an evangelist at the Lutheran Mission station at Eshowe, Zululand, and young Nicholas went to school there, then to the Roman Catholic Institute at Eshowe for his secondary education, finally to a missionary school near Kimberley, where he also took an evening course that proved to be inspired by Communism. For a while Bhengu was attracted to Marxism, but by the time he was 20 he had returned to Christianity, was ordained in 1936 and became a missionary of the Assemblies of God, a pentecostal...
...During Evangelist Billy Graham's visit to Little Rock last week, Jimmy was among his most prominent local sponsors, sat with him at press conferences and on the platform. Summed up one Little Rock reporter: "Many church people are convinced that it's the greatest conversion since Paul of Tarsus. Others still see Jimmy Karam under the sheep's clothing...