Word: grahams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Billy Graham wound up his crusade at Harvard last night in the fullest sense of the word. Speaking to about 250 in Rindge Tech Auditorium and to about 250 in Burr B later on, Graham used a myriad of tones to induce his audience into a commitment for Christ...
During his talks, Graham spoke with soft words and with harsh threats, quoted both modern statesmen and the Scriptures, and even reasoned with his audience to lead them to choose a "life with Christ." And when he met with a smaller crowd in Burr B. Graham was a grammar school teacher speaking to his children telling them what a commitment might mean in everyday terms...
...Rindge, Graham was more harsh than soft-toned. "The Bible says God will judge the secrets and intents of our hearts," he intoned. "Jesus said: 'Except ye repent, ye shall perish,' He called for conversion. Conversion will make you free...
...Graham even told his audience what it would be like to be freed. First of all, he said, a commitment "frees us from the penalty of sin. There is nothing on earth like knowing that the past is forgiven and that you won't be held in account for it. What a tremendous sense of reliet...
...What is Graham's goal? "If just one student out at Harvard would go back to his room tomorrow night and make a commitment to Christ, who knows what might come of it?" He went on to describe how Dwight Moody once told a young Scottish convert to "go do something for the laboring people of Scotland;" the convert went on to found the British Labour Party. Graham sat back in his chair, looking towards the ceiling, his phenomenal nervous enegy no longer so obvious. "These men did evangelists' work, men like John Wesley, and Dwight L. Moody, and William...