Word: grahamism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock of a steamy hot morning, and the bums and drunks on Manhattan's Bowery were sitting in the doorways, just staring. The neat young stranger approached an unshaven old one. "Hello there," he said. "I'm Billy Graham...
...Billy Graham gave him a dime, and the Rev. Dan Potter, executive director of the New York City Protestant Council, suggested that Graham move on to another group of derelicts. "I'm going to pray that you'll find God," Graham called back. "You'll never regret it." The old man nodded, got up from the sidewalk and walked away...
...Decisions. Revivalist Billy Graham, not one to wait for New York City's sinners to come to him at Madison Square Garden, is going to them. Already he has moved through the Bowery, The Bronx and Harlem; he plans sorties to Brooklyn and Wall Street-talking with people as he finds them, and praying with them. Slightly more than halfway through his New York crusade, six-footer Graham is twelve pounds lighter (172 Ibs.) than before he started out, and his world is some 23.000 souls brighter-the number who have made "decisions for Christ." But what impact...
Bibles & Attendance. Outside the Garden, the impact of the crusade is harder to assess. One index-Bible sales-is inconclusive; a few bookstores (Morehouse-Gorham, religious booksellers whom Graham recommends; Calvary Bookstore, near the Garden; and Doubleday) report a small increase, others none...
...minority in Manhattan, and the city's Roman Catholics (27%) and Jews (10.6%) do not seem to be importantly affected by the campaign. (More than half of all New Yorkers are unaffiliated with any faith.) Negro attendance at the Garden is sparse; the lack of Negroes on Graham's headquarters staff (one was hired last week) and the absence of what some Negro leaders call "social content" in Graham's sermons are cited as the chief reasons. Slum districts are likewise unrepresented. Explained one Henry Street pastor: "The crusade format would not touch our people...