The Billy pulpit: Graham's career in the mainline.(evangalist)(Cover Story)

From: The Christian Century | Date: November 15, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

BILLY GRAHAM and I hit New York City at the same time, the summer of 1957. He was 38 and about to clinch his reputation as the premier evangelist in Protestant history. I was 12 and about to taste freedom. But not yet. Night after night nay parents packed themselves and me into a steamy subway to go down to Madison Square Garden to hear the Great Man preach. Soon our first family vacation to the North east was over, and we headed back to the bucolic quiet of southwest Missouri. I couldn't figure out what the big whoop on Graham was all about.

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