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Billy's fondest hope is to spark a real religious revival in the U.S., and if any one person can do it, he is a likely candidate. He can prophesy: "The greatest sin of America is our disregard of God . . . God has allowed evil nations to be destroyed by other wicked nations . . . God may allow Russia to destroy America. Russia will get it in the end, but she may destroy America ... It may take persecution and humiliation to bring America to God . . . There's nothing wrong with being rich, but we're using so much...
...Pelican Stadium, this gaunt young man with the Hickey-Freeman clothes and the eagle-sharp manner is bringing men and women down from the packed stands and up the length of the baseball field to make "decisions for Christ." This would be news enough in that tamed but still sin-ridden city of blues and bourbon. But the flame that is searing New Orleans is also burning greater and greater swathes across the whole U.S. and around the world. Billy Graham is the best-known, most talked-about Christian leader in the world today, barring the Pope...
Blues, Ballads and Sin-Songs brought Libby Holman back to Broadway in a one-woman show. A quarter of a century after Body and Soul and Moanin' Low, Libby still looks youthful, her voice is still throaty and smoldering. Last week's music noticeably differed, however, from the songs the siren sang in The Little Show and Three's a Crowd; her present program-some of it suggesting what might be termed musical American primitives-sets her where the nightclub singer merges (or clashes) with the recitalist...
...that "a 20th century historian might venture to predict that Christianity's transfiguring effect on the World up to date would be outshone by its continuing operation in the future." But he does not accept Christianity as the only true religion. To do so, he believes, is a "sin." If to be a Christian is to believe that Christianity "possesses a monopoly of the Divine Light . . . then I am not entitled to call myself a Christian." Since finishing the Study, Toynbee has expressed himself even more strongly. Said he: "If all the religions in the world were to disappear...
...false and temporary refuge. Instead, Toynbee suggests a kind of spontaneous rally of faith, possibly even the emergence of a new spiritual species. In the distant future, he foresees a kind of blending of all the higher religions-"a terrestrial Communion of Saints who would be free from sin . . . because each soul . . . would be cooperating with God at the cost of sore spiritual travail...