Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their own ministers. What the long-term effect will be on England's, anemic spiritual life will take time to appraise, but ministers who get about the country already report a heavy increase in church attendance and collections. And the clergy of England, at first skeptical about Evangelist Graham, are now warmly grateful: last week 2,300 of them gathered at Westminster for a farewell lunch to Graham. After the Wembley meeting, the Archbishop of Canterbury himself pronounced the benediction...
...biggest change in attitude occurred among the press. Graham's first press conference in Britain was lively with verbal harpoons and loaded questions (TIME, March 8), but last week's conference ended with a benediction and bowed heads...
Twelve pounds lighter than he was last March, Evangelist Graham is off next month on a fortnight's tour of other European countries, with meetings (through interpreters) scheduled in Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Diissel-dorf, Berlin and Paris. Churches in Glasgow, Birmingham and London have invited him to come back to Britain next year for another campaign, and he probably will...
...Meanwhile," says Billy Graham, "God is expecting great things from Britain...
...counting some 112,000 who have heard Graham speak at special meetings, or an estimated 500,000 throughout Britain who have listened to him over leased telephone lines in their own churches and town halls...