Tuesday. April 20,1954
Evangelists Revive Revivals
Old style evangelistic crusades which used to be called revivals, in the last few years, have been staging an impressive comeback.
Some of this type of religion has been seen in the nation's larger cities. Some has been seen here in Lawrence with evangelists drawing large crowds at least once or twice a year.
In Boston, the Rev. Byron Green, canon of the British Cathedral in England, has conducted prolonged crusades filling the 10,000-capacity Mechanics hall. Especially effective with young listeners, Angelican Green caused many of his 600-odd converts on a typical night to scream and cry.
In Washington in 1950, the Federation of Churches bought full-page newspaper ads to trumpet, "It's God's Hour for Greater Washington." The federation imported a preaching team of 30 Protestant ministers and laymen to evangelize Washingtonians at a 6-day session of some 300 breakfasts, luncheons, dinners, lectures, and services.
At the mission's opening ceremony in 10.000 capacity Uline arena,250 black-robed local ministers joined with visiting preachers in a "festival of faith."
But most indicative of the swing to sensational religion is the phenomenal rise of black-browed, hawk-nosed, intense, and staccato-speaking William Franklin Graham.
In 1949, nobody had ever heard of Billy Graham. Today, almost five years later, he has preached to some 8,000,000 persons in gigantic rallies from coast to coast. Now he has taken his message to London and the European continent.
Last June, he drew 75,000 people to Dallas' Cotton bowl to hear his message of sin and salvation. His radio and television audience adds up to some 100,000 regulars not only in this country but also in Canada, Alaska, Panama, India, Africa, Formosa, Hawaii, and areas reached by Radio Luxembourg and the Voice of America.
Britishers didn't think they were going to like the American upstart when he announced his intention of visiting them this spring. Their prejudice was a result of their glimpsing a press release (not meant for their eyes) which quoted Billy as saying "postwar socialism had managed to demoralize Britian where all Hitler's power had failed." Billy pacified them by saying "socialism" was a misprint and should have been "secularism." The change didn't quite ring true, but they let it pass.
And they love him now. He has been drawing 11,000 Londoners at a stretch, and a matinee engagement had to be added for the overflow of crowds.
Mr. Graham's book, "Peace With God," which Doubleday published last November, has sold nearly 150,000 copies. His newspaper column. "Mv
Answer," now appears in 73 papers reaching another 15,000,000 people.
In short, his popularity has been incontestible. Others have been popular in the past, but Mr. Graham has geared his methods—and his message—to the immediate present. "From birth to death, God has His projector turned on you," he says. "He keeps you on his television set until the day you come to His Kingdom."
the day you come to him. His showmanlike gestures—with stabbing forefinger—his restless pacing of the platform (he has covered as much as $1\frac{1}{2}$ miles during a sermon) and his dramatization of the old Bible stories are heartily approved by a majority of the 7,600,000-member Southern Baptist convention, of which he is an ordained minister. But despite this showmanship, Billy Graham has never been as theatrical as other evangelists that public taste has swept to fame.
Often, she passed clotheslines dotted with clothespins down the rows for offerings (removing any possibility of getting anything but dollar bills.) Both she and the ex-ballplayer Billy Sunday were said to have made fortunes out of preaching the Gospel, and many of the regular clergy disliked their tactics.
The late Aimee Semple McPherson was likely to appear in football togs carrying the ball of the Foursquare Gospel, or ride down the aisle of her temple in Los Angeles on a motorcycle dressed as a traffic cop; lap off, throw up a white gloved hand, blow a screech on her whistle, and shout: "Stop! You're speeding to Hell."
Again, Billy is different. He never opens a crusade in any town unless he is invited by local ministers. They run the campaign, and collections are taken up only to meet local expenses. Then an audit prepared by a certified public accountant is published. Mr. Graham draws a flat salary of $15,000 a year which is donated to his cause by interested businessmen.
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And, perhaps the greatest difference between Mr. Graham and other revivalists is that he insists on an intensive follow-up program. Those coming forward to be saved are invited backstage where they sign "decision cards" and talk over their problems with trained counselors. All cards are referred to local ministers, and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Inc., keeps a check on their progress for as long as six months to a year.
"I belive that a great return to revival is sweeping the U.S." he was quoted as saying last year in Time magazine. "I am only part of it. My feeling as a worker in the vineyard is that there is a great upsurge of faith in the country which seeks a way back to Christ," he said. "That is my sole mission—to hold a beacon light for the soul-sick, hopeless, and repentant to seek their way back to the comfort of Christ." —Letty Lemon
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
"The only reason I'm giving you a BARELY PASSING MARK is that I can't bear the thought of having you in my class another year."
See where a fellow in Finland has won a London Times contest by giving 726 synonyms for "drunk." And one college senior is thinking of giving them all a try.
Short Ones
Things are supposed to be brighter now that spring is here. But instead it has just added another worry to our list, which now includes the H-bomb, McCarthy, Indochina and the St. Louis Cardinals.
And when you stop to think about this Finnish fellow, wonder just how he knew so much about the drinking game?
New cars are advertised as having, "the multimillion-dollar look." You have to pay about that much for the look. too.
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I want to commend those individuals who have protested the selection of Good Friday for the relay races. The excuse offered by the responsible officials is without merit as it was known one year in advance when Good Friday and Easter would come. A genuine excuse might exist but I have not seen it presented.
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editorial editor  Dion Tice
Assistants  Letty Lemon,
To the editor:
Right in line with the selection of Good Friday for the relays were the editorials for March 31st, entitled "McCarthyism" signed by Sam Teaford and Don Tree. I found them both disgusting but at least Mr. Teaford made a pretense of presenting both sides. The editorial of Mr. Teaford reminded me of articles by Drew Pearson, Doris Fleason ( I believe the spelling is correct on those names) and similar national columnists.
...LETTERS...
The column by Tice is completely false or at least written to leave a false impression with the casual reader. I was unable to find any truth, by a careful reading, after I left the first paragraph which conseced that the Senator had some friends. It was apparently designed to deceive the uninformed and hide the truth.
The author used questions such as, "can we say, then, that McCarthyism is false accusation?" and then proceeded to answer them as though they were true. Any person who has carefully studied what Mr. Tice calls "McCarthyism" knows that the answer to that and each succeeding question is NO.
Ever since the members of Congress, beginning in the late 30's have started to expose the actions and activities of the communists in America the persons doing so have been under heavy attack from the "liberal" columnists and "liberal" thinkers throughout the nation.
They used to attack the investigators but after Hiss was sent to prison the fact that the Russian Government did have spies in Washington was so thoroughly publicised that these persons did not dare attack the aim of the investigations. They were stumped for a while but they soon figured out that if they could not attack the manner in which the investigations were being conducted and perhaps that way succeed in doing indirectly what they dared not try to do directly, namely stop all investigations of Communist infiltration into the federal government. Thus was born what is called "McCarthyism."
For close to four years now the Communists and their friends have been screaming that the manner in which Senator McCarthy conducted his investigations (even though he didn't have a committee with which to conduct an investigation until 1953) has been unamerican and unfair.
These accusations are absolutely
raise but, unfortunately, they have succeeded in convincing many patriotic and loyal people that these charges are true and these persons have begun spreading the charges, thus shielding the traitors who started the whole thing.
We should consider ourselves fortunate to have a fine Christian Statesman like Joseph R. McCarthy. Their are not many men who would be willing to stay in public life and take the abuse, and the lies and slanders (like the editorial signed by Tice), and the deliberate misrepresentations which have been spread about the Junior Senator from Wisconsin. We need more men like him in the United States Senate.
We should not be fooled when they say that it is only the "methods" of McCarthy that they are opposed to for these same "liberal" columnists and radio commentators have attacked every member of Congress who has ever tried to do anything about the danger of Communist subversion and treason.
If they get rid of McCarthy they will then concentrate on Senator Jenner, then on his successor and then any other Senator who dares to oppose the wishes of the American Communist Party just as these same persons have attacked, libed and slandered the motives, character and actions of every chairman of the House of Unamerican Activities Committee beginning with the first one. Martin Dies of Texas.
These "liberals" forced Dies out of Congress in 1944 (after he had the termerity, for several years, to say publically that the Russian Government had spies in our federal government influencing American policies and stealing our military secrets).
Rather than condemning Senator McCarthy for his actions he should be praised by all of us who put our loyalty to Washington rather than to Moscow. We should all pray to God that the hand of Senator McCarthy be strengthened so that he may continue his investigations and so that many of our fellow citizens sincerely patriotic but deluded and fooled about the whole issue of "McCarthyism", will have their eyes opened to the truth about the Junior Senator from Wisconsin and the fine work he has been doing insite of the slanders and lies which have spread about him.
He is an example of what all members of the U S Senate should be.
Howard L. Lydick 1st Year Law
The federal government is going right along with this de-centralization idea for civil defense. At least they are keeping the chief executive hidden in the peace and quiet of the isolated South with 18 handy holes to jump into in case of a hydrogen bomb attack.