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Billy Graham has currently drawn much bigger crowds on his preaching tour of Great Britain than Labour and Conservative campaigners for the oncoming election. But tomorrow polling booths will replace soapboxes and even the pulpit as the center of attention. Tory defenders and Socialist contenders will wage their final battle on each Britisher's ballot. Yet the very fact of Graham's large turnouts suggests that few election issues have been not enough to divert interest from him. Although some Labourites, like Aneurin Bevan, have themselves campaigned as evangelists, the general prediction of both bookies and "univacs" is that Britain...
...public, but one Sunday Pastor Sturgess brought the subject out into the light. "Whether it be a matter of selling one's home or fleeing a fire, panic has made more fools, undone more men and killed more people than any other thing," he said from his pulpit. "Christianity has been established by those who took a stand on moral convictions grounded in God's will . . ." Instead of For Sale signs, said Pastor Sturgess, "I would love to see someone who had the fortitude to put up a sign: Not for Sale...
...come to bring peace, but a sword." And the devil whispers behind the leaves of the Book, "There is your blessing on war." Another good one is, "Let your moderation be known to all men." The devil gets many folks to take that as their motto, many of them pulpit spellbinders, and they let their moderation be known-immoderately...
...been waging against the Catholic Church (TiME, April 18 et ante). On another front, the Education Ministry "temporarily" banned all religious instruction in government-supported schools.' The church struck back with an effective blow of its own. In a pastoral letter read this week from every pulpit, Argentina's bishops declared that the church believes in rendering unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, but that it also insists on rendering unto God the things that are God's. The letter quoted the "gemlike words" that Hosius, Bishop of Cordova, wrote to the all-powerful...
...time Billy Graham had reached the last words of his "invitation," Jim Vaus had stumbled over to the prayer tent and fallen on his knees. To Reach the Unreached. Since then, Wiretapper Vaus has been Evangelist Vaus. Following the footsteps of his fundamentalist preacher father, he travels from pulpit to pulpit in a panel truck with $18,000 worth of electronic equipment. He sets it up in churches, and rivets