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...When Evangelist Billy Graham began drawing crowds to Washington's National Guard armory with his prayer "crusade" (TIME, Jan. 28), most of the capital's Protestant clergymen looked on with either approval or polite silence. Not so the Rev. A. Powell Davies, pastor of Washington's socially prominent All Souls' Unitarian Church. Fortnight ago, in a sermon reported in Washington newspapers, Dr. Davies expressed Unitarian disapproval of Billy Graham's oldtime religion. Said he: "Heaven and hell, the description of God, the provision of a supernatural salvation-all these, at best, are mere assertions...
Last week, in a letter to the Washington Post, Glasgow-born Dr. George Docherty, pastor of historic New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, took up Evangelist Graham's defense: "Unitarians may not believe in the Revealed Truth of God in Holy Scripture, but those who do may not all be living in a 'religious dark age' . . . Dr. Graham did not come to Washington to put 'guilty ideas' into the minds of the youth of the city ... These 'guilt complexes,' so dear to the psychologist's heart, are as old as the Garden...
...Evangelist Graham, possibly too busy, took no public notice of the controversy. Washington crowds were packing his meetings at the rate of 7,000 a night...
Youth for Christ International, which has sent earthbound missionaries to Europe and South America, last week appointed Paul Hartford, 37, its first official Flying Evangelist. Airman Hartford's first Y.C.I, mission will be to the Caribbean. His basic equipment: a two-seater Cessna, tracts and leaflets to be dropped from the air, a public-address system for use on the ground or even in low, circling flight, and a Spanish-speaking interpreter...
After his big first-day turnout, Evangelist Graham drew a mild reminder about Washington's fire laws, which limit the armory's capacity to 5,310. (Said Billy: "Personally, I know that religious audiences of this kind don't smoke.") For the rest of the week, however, Washingtonians kept their attendance down to 5,000 or 6,000 a night-a steady response, but not yet comparable to last year's 13,000 a night in Seattle...