Word: gardens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That was the turning point. Soon Steeves was catching fish, supplementing them with garden snakes ("They weren't bad"). He rigged a snare with his cocked revolver at a salt lick, finally bagged deer. In mid-June, certain that his health had returned, he made his first try at getting out by going down the torrential Idle fork of the Kings River, attempted to swim across. He tied his summer flights suit and boots around his neck and gripped his underwear in his teeth, but, out in midstream, he found that he couldn't make it, lost...
...spent hours pleading with the husband. The outcome was splashed across the Pictorial's back page. The finale. "Shyly, he turned to his wife and said: 'Hello, love.' Tears of joy filled her eyes. Tenderly he took her hand and said: 'Come into the garden. It's going to be fine from...
Protestants are a minority in Manhattan, and the city's Roman Catholics (27%) and Jews (10.6%) do not seem to be importantly affected by the campaign. (More than half of all New Yorkers are unaffiliated with any faith.) Negro attendance at the Garden is sparse; the lack of Negroes on Graham's headquarters staff (one was hired last week) and the absence of what some Negro leaders call "social content" in Graham's sermons are cited as the chief reasons. Slum districts are likewise unrepresented. Explained one Henry Street pastor: "The crusade format would not touch...
...call back, and one from a devout 15-year-old girl who faithfully attends Sunday school every week here. I've been criticized by some for not cooperating; ten of my parishioners have spoken to me about it. People are bewitched by the aura of Madison Square Garden, they are lifted by the general upsurge; then they come to the local church and find it drab-it has only the faith, and it's dull stuff after the glamour of their big moment...
...Some ministers have used bad taste in criticizing Graham, and one said the Holy Spirit couldn't exist in the Garden. But what started in the Garden of Eden and reached its finest moment in the Garden of Gethsemane should be brought out of those gardens and into the present. Madison Square Garden is as good a place as any for that. We are fearful simply that the effort has no continuity...