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...Evangelist Richards' Voice of Prophecy program has become an international production, broadcast in eleven languages over 845 stations. There is a no-man staff at work in the Voice's Glendale headquarters, and one of Richards' weekly sermons draws an average 14,000 letters from his world audience. After the Lutheran Hour (carried by more than 1,000 stations), the Adventists' program is the most widely heard religious broadcast in the world...
...Alive . . ." Broadcaster Richards, 58, is a friendly, hard-working man with a habit of calling everybody "brother." His father was also an Adventist evangelist, and Harold got his start at 17, preaching at Adventist "campaigns," i.e., revival meetings, in the U.S. and Canada. His first parish was a tiny, tar-papered church in Ottawa, where he boosted the congregation from...
Noah Was Warned. Through the years, the formula for Voice of Prophecy has changed very little. Evangelist Richards steers clear of specific Adventist dogma,* concentrates instead on basic talks about the Bible, interspersed with oldtime hymns sung by the King's Heralds, a male quartet. He knows his Bible well-he has read it cover to cover 31 times-and his sermons are highly concrete discussions of the Bible's application to daily life. Says he: "We believe that there are things in the Bible that prophesy what is happening today and that tell of the coming...
...Bible course is now printed in 46 languages, and the number of students offers some testimony to the size of Richards' radio audience. Currently, 1,500,000 are enrolled-500,000 more than the Adventists' total world membership. Still, Evangelist Richards and his staff are not content. He and the King's Heralds plan a round-the-world campaign this summer, with the emphasis on Africa. A fortnight ago, the Voice hooked up with seven radio stations in Japan. Says Adventist Richards, who cheerfully runs his $1,000,000 operation on a salary of $65 a week...
...Evangelist Billy Graham returned from Korea with the news that he had discovered a new breed of G.I. Said he: "I never once saw a pin-up picture. But I saw hundreds of Bibles...