Word: graham
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Singling out the city whose sinfulness most insistently demands repentance on a massive scale is a perplexing problem to Billy Graham; he has at one time or another handed the palm to New York, Berlin, Chicago, Los Angeles and even Boston. Clearly though, it is swinging London that rates the special concern of the glowing-eyed evangelist, and last week he was back there to begin a five-week crusade, his second in twelve years...
...Greater London Crusade, when in three months he spoke to 1,339,400 Britons and gained 38,447 decisions for Christ. The 1966 campaign to conquer London for God is the most carefully planned of the evangelist's career. Advance preparation began in earnest 18 months ago, when Graham assistants set up offices overlooking Piccadilly Circus. Billy's organizers sent letters asking for cooperation to every Protestant and Anglican clergyman within 40 miles of London. The Rev. Robert Ferm, head of the enlistment team, talked to more than 4,000 clerics; 2,000 churches agreed to help...
Dividing Greater London into postal zones, the Graham organizers found supervisors for each zone, who in turn commanded subzone lieutenants and block captains. In all, 20,000 laymen were recruited to make "threshold visitations" to 3,000,000 London homes during the crusade, inviting people to the nightly rallies at Earl's Court...
...crusade neared, Billy's London headquarters grew to a full-time staff of 40, including twelve associate evangelists, a music director and a gospel singer. Graham's aides gave six weekly guidance lectures for 6,000 more volunteers, who will tactfully receive those stepping forward to make a decision for Christ, steer them to the nearest church of their chosen denomination -and make a follow-up phone call or house visit within 48 hours to find out if new believers are holding to their convictions...
...years since La Farge died, 30 since his last big memorial exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. To recall his considerable accomplishments, Manhattan's Graham Gallery is currently showing a retrospective of La Farge's work, from his academic studies of the 1860s to his free, spontaneous washes and water-colors of unspoiled South Sea islands. They go far toward establishing La Farge as one of the originals of his day, an innovator if not a revolutionary, a romantic who opened up his canvases to the influences of all ages, yet imposed on nature a vision...