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...foundation of New Testament Christianity is being destroyed," Evangelist Billy James Hargis bellowed into the mike at the Fourth Annual National Convention of his anti-Communist Christian Crusade last week in Tulsa. "God is being attacked from every quarter. Although life under Communism would mean the abolition of worship, certain socialistic, clergymen in the U.S. are propagandizing for unilateral disarmament and ultimately world government including the Communist nations...
...much to sell This barker Maintains histories In the inflections of his wares, Is so ravished By the scholarship Which redeems a season's Losses, wins Like an evangelist so many Souls to the skin's show, It's a wonder Anything's left Of his own life...
...Journeyman. A restless barnstormer by trade and temperament, he was born in Fresno, Calif. His mother was the daughter of a German farmer, who built one of California's first irrigation systems. His father was the son of an English evangelist, but most of Del Webb's early exposure to religion came from his father's three sisters. "Those old ladies were so religious they squeaked," he says. "I had to go to Sunday school and church, and-goddammit-I wanted to play ball. They thought baseball was trafficking with the devil, so when I finally went...
...World of Billy Graham (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). A repeat of last year's portrait of the evangelist...
...Catholic clergymen were sharply hostile toward the decision. Francis Cardinal Spellman, Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, pronounced himself "shocked and frightened.'' The decision, he said, "strikes at the very heart of the Godly tradition in which America's children have for so long been raised." Evangelist Billy Graham condemned the ruling as "another step toward secularism." A conference of 120 Protestant Episcopal clergymen from Long Island churches adopted a resolution saying: "The ultimate effect of this decision may be to nullify and threaten with destruction the American people's long-continued and precious religious tradition...