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...Billy Graham (in Chicago) At the age of 43, Baptist Preacher Billy Graham has been conducting crusades for Christ for 13 years. According to his statistics-minded aides, he has completed 115 crusades, preached to more than 27 million people, accounted for 875,000 "decisions for Christ." Last week Billy was busy conducting his first crusade in Chicago-and something of the old platform magic was still at work. After seven days, Billy had spoken to 220,000 people, recorded 5,521 decisions, and, as usual, he found himself overwhelmed by the response. "There is a depth to the meetings...
Stuart Merriam, 38, attended impromptu services in the basement of the church-and his presence drew crowds twice as large as the ones that came to hear the substitute preacher upstairs. But to most of his fellow ministers. Stuart Merriam is a grave ecclesiastical embarrassment, a preacher ill-suited to his call. Last week the Presbytery of New York-an assembly of ministers and elders that governs 62 United Presbyterian churches in the city-decided, by a vote of 79 to 11, to revoke Broadway Presbyterian's call to Merriam. The presbytery also selected a nine-man judicial commission...
...McCarthy came up. At one point, when Senators seemed about to come to blows, Ervin arose. He told a typical tale about Uncle Ephraim. The poor old fellow had been tortured for years by arthritis. He was bent double as he sat in church one Sunday. The mountain preacher asked various members of the congregation what the Lord had done for them. All replied, in self-satisfying detail. Then the preacher pointed to Uncle Eph and demanded an answer. Croaked Uncle Eph: "Brother, he has mighty nigh ruint me." Concluded Senator Ervin: "That is about what Senator McCarthy has done...
...ever seen." Precocious Deals. The man who made the mess is a bundle of contradictions and paradoxes who makes Dr. Jekyll seem almost wholesome. Billie Sol (pronounced "soul" in West Texas) never smoked or drank. He considered dancing immoral, often delivered sermons as a Church of Christ lay preacher. But he ruthlessly ruined
Died. Northam Warren Sr., 83, pioneer U.S. cosmetics manufacturer, a Baptist preacher's son who first introduced liquid nail polish to the U.S. in 1916; of a heart ailment; in Stamford, Conn...