Word: grahams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Billy Graham has pointedly steered clear of civil rights demonstrations. But last week, he started the first phase of a major crusade to see whether his gospel message-that men must love God before they can love one another-can ease some of the racial tension in the South. "As a Southerner," says Baptist Billy, "I may have a little more influence than a man with a New England accent...
...charge that does not bear scrutiny. Since 1950, he has refused to speak before segregated audiences, and has quietly integrated his own staff; one of his 14 associate evangelists, the Rev. Howard Jones of Ohio, is a Negro, and Billy has invited another Negro cleric to join the Graham organization. Speaking in the South, Billy has denounced racial discrimination as a product of man's sinfulness; he has refused to preach in South Africa because his audiences would be segregated...
...Graham's critics argue that the sense of spiritual brotherhood he creates often lasts no longer than the memory of his sermon. In answer, Billy argues that a true conversion to Christ inevitably affects man's racial attitude. Moreover, he believes that his kind of preaching may have a special value for the South, where both white and Negro share a common tradition of reverence for Gospel-centered Christianity. And despite "huge psychological barriers," Billy believes that the South may well overcome its racial difficulties faster than the North. "We're building for future generations," he says...
...hope it is not too late to correct two misimpressions conveyed by your report of Dr. Frank Graham's speech to the Winthrop House Forum last week...
First, Dr. Graham did not say that the French and Russians were "correct" in not paying their assessments (as the headline reported) nor did he even say that they were technically correct (as the body of the story said). What he did say was that their position can be justified by a strict interpretation of the Charter, an interpretation with which he personally disagrees, but which gives the Franco-Russian position a firmer legal basis than most Americans realize. To say, that a particular political position can be justified by a strict construction of some fundamental law is quite...