Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baseball field to make "decisions for Christ." This would be news enough in that tamed but still sin-ridden city of blues and bourbon. But the flame that is searing New Orleans is also burning greater and greater swathes across the whole U.S. and around the world. Billy Graham is the best-known, most talked-about Christian leader in the world today, barring the Pope...
...themselves as converts. Even when they do not understand his language or share his American tradition, people flock to hear him speak short sentences to be echoed in their own language by an interpreter. In Scandinavia, Finland, Holland. Germany and France this summer, 296,600 came. Since 1949, Billy Graham has preached personally to 12 million people and brought 200,000 of them to various stages of Christian commitment...
Before Billy Graham is through, a lot more people will begin looking for it-in the Inquiry Tent...
...just a small item on the back page of heaven's newspaper," says Graham modestly. But on earth he has already got enough newspaper publicity to make both Hollywood and the circus envious. Five full-length movies in which he appears, a weekly radio program, broadcast on nearly 1,000 stations, and a daily newspaper column syndicated in 99 newspapers, keep a steady stream of converts "deciding for Christ" every week. Tycoons listen to him respectfully, and grey-headed clerics sit at his feet. The humble send him gifts, and the great ones seek him out. Churchill invited...
...right-now, yes-or-no decision. The hot Gospel played a major part in the making of America, when churches were fewer, distances vast and life hard. But upper-crust Christians tend to regard the sweaty urgency of evangelistic Christianity as frequently hypocritical and always in bad taste. Billy Graham is different...