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...they walked back to the car Carlo felt a little like Rex Humbard, or Oral Roberts, or maybe Billy Graham. He glanced at his mother, who by now was beaming like the lady in the wheelchair who gets up and hollers "I Believe" every night at the Oral Roberts meeting, and at his father, who looked pretty well converted too. In fact, Lou looked like he'd been born-again, all fire and enthusiasm and eagerness to give all he owned for the cause...
Liberals and strategically-important southern Africa: The Rev. Rex Humbard prize for rightist propaganda goes this week to the news editors of The New York times, along with editorial page Editor John B. Oakes. The outpouring began earlier this week with a by-lined story from Salisbury, Rhodesia, cataloguing the murderous Rhodesian army raid on a black guerilla camp in Mozambique. More than 300 Africans were killed according to Salisbury sources quoted by The Times; this, in retaliation for a mortar attack on an army camp where four Rhodesian troops died. Following that story, in which not one Mozambican...
After 30 years of sermonizing, Billy Graham [Dec. 1] uttered the soundest critique of his career: "I would have studied more and spoken a great deal less." Wouldn't it be a blessing if Kuhlman, Roberts and Humbard could learn from the mistakes of others...
Ohio Commerce Director Dennis Shaul wants Humbard to stop issuing securities and to establish a cash reserve of up to $3,000,000 to ensure that cathedral investors can get their money back if they want. The SEC wants a receiver to put the cathedral back in the black, even if it means selling off some of its assets. Humbard's lawyers will try to work out a compromise at court hearings this week and next...
...count as assets $14 million that the cathedral will inherit from people who have written the church into their wills. He insists that cathedral investors are not worried about their investments; they are pious folk who regard the church's securities as a contribution to gospel spreading. As Humbard told TIME Correspondent Richard Ostling last week: "We have never missed an interest payment. We're not in default with our people. If Government regulators try to force us into a corner, it's the noteholders they say they're trying to protect who will suffer...