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...CALVIN THIELMAN Montreat Presbyterian Church Montreat...
Billy Graham of Montreat, N.C. was making a special path to New York City's nearly 1,000,000 Spanish-speaking inhabitants, mostly Puerto Ricans. Of the 43,500 who went to listen to him, 1,139 made "decisions for Christ." New York, Puerto Rican population has been a surprisingly fertile field for Protestant proselytizing. Partly because of a shortage of priests in their homeland, as in all Latin America, many Puerto Ricans have had little or no instruction in the Roman Catholic faith to which they traditionally belong. Protestant churches have been quick to capitalize on this; they...
...Montreat, N.C. Evangelist Billy Graham last week husbanded his strength for his biggest battle to date with the Devil-over New York City. On the battlefield itself, his advance guard lined up the captains and cohorts for the struggle ahead (May 15 to June 30, and perhaps longer). In 50 countries around the world groups affiliated with 1,900 Protestant churches kept up 24-hour chains of prayer for the big campaign. But from a Roman Catholic churchman came the warning: Catholics in heavily Catholic New York (2,136,000) should not listen to Billy Graham in person...
...Green Montreat Valley, nestling in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, was once the 6,000-acre hunting preserve of Candy King John S. Huyler. Now it is a kind of religious preserve, owned by the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern), and operated as an assembly grounds and for the peace and pleasure of its retired and vacationing members. Last week 482 commissioners, representing more than 810,000 members, 3,806 congregations, gathered there for the Southern Presbyterians' 96th general assembly. The commissioners (including ten Negroes) debated and prayed for six days in grey stone Anderson Auditorium...
When Billy Graham goes home, it is to an eight-room rustic house in Montreat, N.C., where he and his wife Ruth live in unpretentious comfort (Billy tithes his $15,000 a year from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association). The Grahams do their best to keep their four children-Virginia, 9; Anne, 6; Ruth, 3; and William Franklin III, 2-from "hamming it up" for the tourists, who sometimes come in busloads to stare at the house. Virginia is currently trying to learn the Sermon on the Mount by heart, has been promised a bike and $25 if she gets...