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...Soviet Union last June was the most "exciting" musical experience she has had. The solo selection she played--a concerto by Argentine composer Ginastera--was broadcast over the BBC radio in London and advertised by poster in the streets of Paris. Although she thought playing in Moscow and Leningrad was depressing, she says the tour "felt sort of like my European debut...
...high point of the first leg of the American evangelist's most improbable mission since he went on the road for God 39 years ago: his first evangelistic tour of the Soviet Union, a country zealously committed to the extirpation of all belief. Commented Graham en route to Leningrad: "I look on it as remarkable that I am here at all, preaching." Lenin would no doubt have agreed...
...hardly the sort of patented Graham "crusade" that so many nations of the world have witnessed. No billboards beckoned audiences, no hippodromes were booked. But in Leningrad, at least, he got permission to put up loudspeakers for overflow crowds, despite Soviet laws that forbid any evangelism outside church walls. Inside the Leningrad Baptist hall, every inch of pew and aisle space was packed by the 2,000 worshipers, including a healthy number of teenagers. Two participants said they had traveled 2,000 miles from Central Asia for the event. Outside, dozens of people listened to Graham on the loudspeakers while...
...evangelist is meeting beleaguered Jewish leaders and speaking in Russian Orthodox cathedrals and churches that have rarely allowed Protestants in the pulpit. At Leningrad's Orthodox Academy, Graham offered advice to 1,000 seminarians and priests. Without directly citing Soviet restrictions, he said, "In some societies you cannot go out and preach the Gospel. What do you do?" His answer: "We must wear the fruit of the Spirit, so that people, when they see how we live, will be drawn to the Spirit within us." Christianity has survived atheist taunts, he said, "because the Gospel has its own power...
...those who came to see him; surreptitious cassette recorders will doubtless give his sermons wide distribution among Soviets. Graham also took note of how difficult it is for Soviets to display their faith. In his usual appeal for public commitments to Jesus Christ, he asked his Baptist listeners in Leningrad to raise their hands. Despite the presence of KGB plainclothesmen with cameras, two dozen people did so. A parishioner later explained poignantly why more did not respond: "You Americans live in freedom. Our arms are always pressed down to our sides. We are like prisoners. It is hard...