Word: grahamism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...further social activity, a Mixer Dance has been scheduled for the Union at 8:30 tomorrow night, it has been announced. Music will be supplied by George Graham's Orchestra and a 35 cent admission charge will be made...
Glamour & Continuity. Says the Rev. Dr. John Ellis Large of the Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest at Fifth Avenue and goth Street (congregation 1,000): "We're not what they call a 'cooperating church'-working with the Graham organization-but we have received three cards: one from a dear old lady who lasn't been to church in 50 years, one from a total stranger whom we can't reach and who won't call back, and one from a devout 15-year-old girl who faithfully attends Sunday school every week here...
...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...
...Graham enthusiasts maintain that the results of Graham's other big-city crusades have been tangible, if hard to measure. Says Presbyterian Minister and Author Dan Poling: "What about the entire history of Christianity since St. Peter preached at Pentecost? ... Is not Christianity itself the direct result of evangelism, mass evangelism included...
...spiritual event can ever be wholly represented in statistics or evaluated at the time it happens. The impact of Graham's preaching may bear immeasurable fruit months and years hence, in unforeseen ways. But at present, in concrete, reportable terms, Crusader Graham's effect on the big city is negligible...