Word: harringay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London's 12), biggest (1,941,200 attendance v. 1,339,400 in London) evangelistic campaign he had ever preached. By the numbers, at least, it was also the most fruitful: 56,426 made "decisions for Christ" at Madison Square Garden (38,447 in London's Harringay Arena), and 30,523 made decisions as a result of Billy's coast-to-coast TV program. Of those making decisions at the Garden, 57% were from New York City, 36% from suburbs and exurbs-Westchester, Connecticut, New Jersey and Long Island...
What the Bible Says. The Billy Graham who walked into Great Saint Mary's for his first preaching session was a long way from Georgia, or even from London's Harringay Arena. There was no singing, no platform to pace, no lapel microphone,' no special lighting. Dressed in a black academic gown with the red, green and gold hood of an honorary doctor of laws (Houghton College, N.Y., '50), he stood in the cramped quarters of the pulpit before a crowd of 1,200 which had left behind an overflow queue two blocks long. When...
...London's underground, officials posted the warning: HARRINGAY FULL. This is standing procedure for cutting down the crowds that head toward sold-out stadiums for cup finals and big football matches. But the multitudes on their way to Harringay Arena in North London last week were not out for fun and games. They were flocking to hear Billy Graham's call to salvation...
...turned away. So many people came on the first Saturday that Graham decided to make three-meeting Saturdays a permanent feature of his three-month crusade. Other plans to deal with the overflow: midweek matinee meetings, subsidiary meetings in movie houses to be toured by Graham, loudspeakers in nearby Harringay Stadium on the five nights a week when there are no dog races...
...Plane in a Fog." This week 11,000 men and women jammed Harringay Arena for the first of Billy Graham's sessions. Some 3,000 more had to be turned away. Speaking from a sky-blue pulpit under a mammoth cube that hung from the middle of the roof with the same text on each of its four sides ("Jesus said: I am the Way, the Truth and the Life"), Evangelist Graham slowed down his usual machine-gun delivery for the benefit of British ears and moderated his usual platform prowl in deference to British dignity. But the message...