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Like a combination of Babylon, Sodom and imperial Rome, New York lies waiting for a man of God to bring the city to its knees. That, at any rate, is the way Billy Graham sees it. Ever since he began his worldwide ministry, Evangelist Graham has catalogued New York City as a citadel of Satan he would have to tackle some day. He has decided to begin this spring. Billy and his twelve-man team have signed up Madison Square Garden from May 15 through mid-October to preach salvation to New Yorkers as he has preached it in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Billy v. New York | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

Therefore, we and our seed must have a care not to dwell among them. For, it shall be unto the University of Chicago and the University of California as it was unto Sodom and Gomorrah! Brethren, we must not withold our life-giving power, we must spread it broadcast throughout the wilderness to produce good fruit and choke these western weeds. Only Harvard can save; we must have a care for the cancer of heresy in these black and troubled times. Amen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Errand Into the Wilderness | 11/23/1956 | See Source »

...rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side . . . the forefront of the one was situate northward over against Michmash. and the other southward over against Gibeah." A few years ago Israeli Businessman Xiel Federmann began to brood over the account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah ("and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace"), guessed such conflagrations might indicate underground gas-and underground gas meant oil. He was right. In 1953 Israel's first oil well went into operation near the ancient site of Sodom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Biblical Detective Story | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

...Sodom (current population: about 1,000), where the Lord saved Lot and his naughty daughters, then rained fire and brimstone on the sinful city, a 6 ft. sign went up this month. Written in Hebrew and English, it noted that "Sodom is the lowest point of habitation in the world, 1,286 ft. below sea level." Then, after telling the Biblical story of Sodom's destruction, it added: "Today, Sodom is the center of Israel's potash production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Pillar of Potash | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

...Land of Sodom. But he was well aware that without British subsidy Jordan would starve. It was the Biblical land of Sodom, and some say that the curse has never been lifted. Only 5% of its land was cultivated at all. Among the flints and pebbles on the treeless brown hills around Amman grew scattered stands of wheat. Flanked by rich oil lands, Jordan had no oil of its own, got revenue only from tolls on the two pipelines that cross it from Iraq and Saudi Arabia. "A cement factory and a cigarette plant constitute Jordan's heavy industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JORDAN: The Boy King | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

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