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...Mountains with the season's first snow, some 7,000 people are already waiting in the steel and tar-paper structure-the largest indoor gathering ever assembled in Albuquerque. A Plymouth sedan drives up, and out of it steps the Rev. William Franklin (Billy) Graham, showman, salesman, pressagent, preacher- the hottest Protestant soul-saver since the late Billy Sunday quit the sawdust trail. Albuquerque last week had the honor of celebrating Billy Graham's birthday: he had just turned...
...missionary, Xavier was more like a streetcorner preacher than the polished diplomat some historians make him out to be. In Bologna, Italy he had attracted attention "by standing on a vacant bench, waving his big hat, and shouting to loungers and marketing folk to come and listen to the Word of God." In "golden, heartless Goa," the citadel of Portugal's Asiatic colonies, he got crowds for his instructions by walking up & down the streets ringing a large bell. And when he found an audience, he held it. Writes Biographer Brodrick: "Perhaps they laughed at him to start with...
...Henry Emerson Fosdick, famous preacher at the Riverside church in New York City, is a Colgate alumnus who is still active in the Alumni Association...
Most of Sam's family were "abandoned Presbyterians," and so church was also available as a place for mischief. Once Sam and a friend were almost caught playing euchre in the parish house. In desperation they stuffed the pack into the sleeves of the preacher's "baptising robe." Next time the preacher was immersing converts, the cards slid out of his sleeve one by one, and floated serenely down the river, "the first cards being a couple of bowers and three aces." Caught and flogged, Sam (or maybe it was the friend) sobbed through his tears...
...problem. As George Brunk explained, "There are plenty of moneymen everywhere we've been who want to see our work go on." Preaching seven times a week, they give their audiences a combination of good hymn singing and long, satisfying sermons ("We do not preach sermonettes"). Said Preacher George, "We preach a fundamental brand of religion, but we aren't fundamentalists. We aren't modernists, either. You don't have to be one or the other...