Word: grahams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Graham does not, however, see himself as a prophet like Isaiah and Jeremiah. "When I first heard myself called an evangelist, I resented it--I thought of Elmer Gantry. But I've come to like it. It comes from a Greek word meaning 'proclaimer'; an evangelist is a proclaimer of the good news that God loves us and wants to help...
...phrases slipped out smoothly, effortlessly, just as they had moments before while Graham was answeing the same question for a press conference. They would come out again the next night when he spoke at Wellesley, and still again a night later when he stood before a thousand Harvard students at Rindge Tech. Probably the students who heard Graham at Princeton and Michigan earlier this month heard the same phrases...
...faced the camera, Billy Graham's face betrayed no boredom or fatigue. The enunciation was precise, his tone not monotonous, but rolling. In fact, he seemed excited as he leaned foreward, his eyes trained on the camera with the same intense, steady glare he turns on his audiences during a speech, on a listener during an interview...
...Graham at a press conference reminds one of a politician delivering his "set speech," and of one politician in particular, Billy Graham and Barry Goldwater have more in common than the initials they use. They both combine passionate beliefs with personal flair; neither is an original thinker and neither is an original stylist, yet each has risen far above others who profess similar beliefs in somewhat the same manner. As Gold water is a cut above John Tower and H.R. Gross, so Graham seems far removed from Oral Roberts and the other nameless faith-healing Protestant evengelists...
...Graham is at a loss to explain his power over his audiences. "That's one of the first things I'm going to ask God when I get to Heaven, because I don't know. I'm the most ordinary person in the world. I'm amazed at it all; to me it's just God. It's sovereignty of God in choosing me as he did Jeremiah, or Isaiah...