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...This is the original.") The revival got under way. Striding excitedly around his congregation, and sweating with fervor, Evangelist Poole shouted and whispered into his microphone. "I used to be a drunkard," he would yell. "I used to curse and tell lies and all those things. But I've been saved! ... If you come, you can find God around this old bush arbor ... If you go home lost tonight, it's not my fault." His flock would begin to groan and shout, to shake and roll in the sawdust. Then a string quartet would take over...
...Evangelist Billy Graham, at the end of his glory-road revival tour of Greater London (TIME, May 31), dropped in at No. 10 Downing Street for a chat with Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Beamed Billy later: "I felt as if I were shaking hands with Mr. History." Meanwhile, the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, in a report from London, told its readers how it feels to be Mrs. Billy Graham. Confided Ruth Graham to the Observer's observer: "Just pray for a thick skin and a tender heart. You need it when people just stare coldly and call you a racketeer...
...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...
Twelve pounds lighter than he was last March, Evangelist Graham is off next month on a fortnight's tour of other European countries, with meetings (through interpreters) scheduled in Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Diissel-dorf, Berlin and Paris. Churches in Glasgow, Birmingham and London have invited him to come back to Britain next year for another campaign, and he probably will...