Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was good reason for Evangelist Graham to smile, for seldom in his crowd-filled career had he met with such enthusiasm. Madras was clogged with out-of-towners seeking rooms; one group of 100 rode the train from Hyderabad four days and nights, and one man walked 400 miles to hear him. Caste was ignored in the stampede to see Billy. To an audience of 40,000 he spoke through two interpreters (one for the Telugu and one for the Tamil tongue...
...Kottayam, Palamcottah and New Delhi there was the same enthusiasm. "Graham Ki Jai" (Cheers for Graham), the Indians cried, and Billy acknowledged the enthusiasm Hindu fashion, joining his palms before his face and bowing his head. Presiding over a gathering of 15,000 on the grounds of New Delhi's Y.M.C.A. was an Indian Christian Princess, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, who in 1930 renounced her father's palace in Lucknow, became a Christian (Presbyterian), and is now India's Minister of Health. "Billy Graham," she said, "is one of those rare jewels who tread this earth periodically...
Evangelist Graham bluntly tackled color questions: "Christ was born between East and West. He was not as light as I am, and was not as dark as you." To the folks at home Billy reported: "I am taking my wife a sari, the world's most beautiful garment. I mean to turn her into an Indian." And in U.S. newspaper columns he wrote: "The people of India love and respect America." He added: "I have fallen so much in love with India that I can be its good ambassador in my travels round the world...
...harsh note sounded from the old Raj when Britain's new Archbishop of York, Dr. Arthur M. Ramsey (TIME, Jan. 16), wrote in Durham's diocesan magazine that Billy Graham "taught the grossest doctrines and flung his formula, 'the Bible says,' over teaching which is emphatically not that of the Bible." Said Billy: "I have the highest personal regard for the archbishop...
...Billy Graham, sweeping through India last week, more or less pointedly in the path of Russia's politico-evangelists two months ago, was one Western Christian who seemed all set to pick up his share of that burden (see above...