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...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...
When he was five the family moved to his father's second pastorate in the little (pop. 6,635) town of McMinnville, Ore. One Sunday there, Ted sat in church listening to an evangelist his father had invited to preach. "He finished, and he asked for true believers to come forward," says Adams. "Without even knowing I was doing it, I stood up and I saw my father standing there waiting. It was only three or four steps up there, but even as a six-year-old I thought to myself that they were terribly important steps...
...guided . . . Much of the sexual irregularity of today may ... be caused neither by wickedness nor by ignorance, but by the fact that man's creative instinct is being denied its proper channels." ¶ Winding up a ten-day campaign at Cambridge (TIME, Nov. 21) and Oxford Universities, Evangelist Billy Graham preached to an Oxford congregation packed so tightly into St. Aldate's Church that students could not kneel to pray...