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Graham is an ordained Southern Baptist, but he preaches a fundamentalist common-denominational brand of Christianity. As a teenager, Billy sold more Fuller brushes than any other salesman in his North Carolina area because he was convinced that there are no finer brushes than Fuller brushes, and his conviction was contagious. The grown-up Billy believes in a heaven & hell as tangible as a Fuller brush. Graham likes to talk about his evangelism in Fuller brush terms: "How much of my product can I get them to take...
Cline Paden, 33, a minister of the fundamentalist Churches of Christ, looked out of his window in Rome last week to find 40 armed carabinieri at his door. Soon after, as members of his congregation began to arrive for Sunday services at the chapel downstairs, the carabinieri waved them away. Pastor Paden went downstairs to remonstrate. He urged the carabinieri themselves to come inside to hear his preaching. Said their commander: "Why would you let us attend your services? We are all Catholics." Answered Evangelist Paden: "All the more reason for us to save your souls." The carabinieri just went...
...look is merely superficial. Inside the jazzy jackets, the little books toe a firm fundamentalist line going straight back to fiery Evangelist Dwight L. Moody, who founded the press in 1894. In The Prodigal, copyright 1898, Moody himself delivers a brisk little homily on the perils of cigars, whisky and wild women. More up-to-the-minute, A Visit to Mars is mildly in the modern science-fiction vein. The Martians, it turns out, are not only supermen but super-Christians, who have attained a state of grace. The only graceless, earthian thing about them is their dialogue. Sample...
Died. The Rev. John Franklyn ("J. Frank") Norris, 74, tempestuous pastor of the First Baptist Church in Fort Worth (and, until 1951, of the Temple Baptist Church in Detroit as well); of a heart attack, at a Fundamentalist camp meeting; in Keystone Heights, Fla. In 1912, when the old First Baptist in Fort Worth burned down, Pastor Norris was indicted for arson. When he produced threatening letters to prove it was the work of his enemies, he was charged with perjury. A jury acquitted him on both charges, while his congregation filled the courtroom to sing The Old-Time Religion...
...Firmly Fundamentalist. Bob Jones Sr. is a Methodist; his son Bob Jr., who found modern Methodists "too liberal," was ordained by the Christian and Missionary Alliance. They keep their school interdenominational, however, welcome students and faculty members who subscribe to a firmly fundamentalist creed. "Religiously," says Bob Jr., "our testimony is: whatever the Bible says is true...