Another View On
T heGrahamCrusade
EDITOR’S NOTES: In a recent
signed article for the United
Dress, Dr. Harold Fey, editor of
the Christian Century Magazine,
questioned the value of mass re
ligious conversions such as those
recorded at Billy Graham’s New
York Crusade meetings. The fol
lowing dispatch, by the editor of
another well — known Protestant
journal, Christianity Today, de
fends Christianity methods and
the crusade’s results.
By DR. CARL F. H. HENRY
Written For The United Press
The multitudes are loosed today
from fixed standards and from a
vital relationship to God. Whether
won to Christ one-by-one or in
throngs, the yhad better be enlist
ed swiftly, for unless they are
brought to Christ, they will be
abandoned to the service of false
gods in our secular and materialis
tic age.
While the New Testament em
phasizes the necessity of personal
spiritual decision, it nowhere looks
with skepticism and disdian upon
attempts to evangelize the masses.
At Pentecost 3000 converts were
added to the church. From the be
ginning .therefore, the Chrisitan
recognized that mass conversions
are not necessarily superficial.
The real issue is not whether
conversions are mass — produced
or custom-made, but whether they
are God's work or man’s.
Liberal Protestantism is critical
of Dr. Billy Graham because of
his success with New Testament
evangelism in which it disbelieves,
and not because there is anything
intrinsically harmful about a bulk
response to Christian evangelism.
Dr. Graham preaches the New
Testament message that every
man is a doomed sinner exposed
to divine wrath, and that the sin
ner can be restored to fellowship
with God only by the Holy Spirit’s
I supernatural regeneration on con
| dition of personal trust in the sub
; stitutionary atonement of Jesus
| Christ, the virgin-bom, bodily-res
urrected Son of God. The liberal
theology’s rejection of this New
Testament message is the deepest
ground of its criticism of Billy
Graham.
In a recent article prepared for
the United Press, Dr. Harold E.
Fey, editor of the Christian Cen
tury, asserts that mass — produced
conversions are ephemeral, and
implies that one-by-one conver
sions fixed doctrinal beliefs and
without emotional upheaval, are
superiod. Dr. Fey contributes a
shallow and disappointing esti
mate of the Madison Square Gar
den campaign.
Number ot converts in Madison
Square Garden have previously
experienced the type of individual
spiritual adjustment for which Dr.
Fey pleads, and have found it spir
itually inedequate and superficial
due to the shallow theological di
mension of the liberal Prostestant
theology.
The fact is that Dr. Graham is
not opposed to a one-by-one win
ning of men and women to deci
sion for Christ through the activi
ties of the local church. Precisely
the failure of the local churches
to fullfill this task creates the ur
gency of mess evangelism. Multi
tudes of those who come to the
Garden have never been reached
by churchmen of Dr. Fey’s per
suasion with an allegedly superior
technique of conversion or they
would not be responding to Mr.
Graham’s ministry.
Moreover, even in the Graham
campaigns the appeal for public
decision does not exclude personal
counselling and commitment; ev
ery convert goes into the counsell
ing rooms, and is encouraged in
Christian growth through personal
fellowship. If Dr. Graham were to
Louise Brown
Sings Ballads
CHICAGO (in — Off in a cor
ner of a tiny, walk-up lounge, be
hind a piano surrounded by bar
stools, shy Louise Brown sings her
poignant ballads, striving for per
fection but scared she might be
come a star.
“Maybe this big time success
stuff isn’t all it’s cracked up to
be,” she said . “Maybe I’d be bet
ter off just staying the way I am.
Maybe the grass isn’t greener on
the other side.”
Louise’s side of the Grass means
starting to sing about 10 each
night. She may keep at it until
five the next morning. Sometimes,
she has to use her pinao scores
to push the patrons, stale smoke
from her face.
lead hundreds of converts nightly
into decision for Christ through
personal counselling, rather than
mass evangelism, the voice of lib
eral Protestantism would still be
critical of his ministry because of
its distrust of the New Testament
revelation.
What is most disappointing
about Dr. Fey’s estimate is the
bland way in which he assures us
that “experience has shown re
peatedly” that the person who ac
cepts Christ “in such circum
stanqes as those in Madison
I Square Garden is very likely to
lose his way.” We may be forgiv
I en for inquiring what repeated ex
perience of campaigns such as
those in the Garden have come
into Dr. Fey’s experience? And on
what basis the results of the Gar
den campaign can be prejudged
before the campaign itself has
ended, and the roll of converts
completed? I fear that Dr. Fey
has given us a report of what he
hopes will be the fact, rather than
a factual statement of the char
acter of mass evangelism.
"Yeah, they’re rude, some of!
them,” she said. "But that’s the
Job. Music is part of me. This just
has to go along with it. It's not
really so bad, though. After awhile
it starts growing on you.”
Louise started when she was
nine. It was in Dallas, and she
show. From there, it was radio at
age 11. Then back to the theaters
and eventually to West Virginia
State College to major in music.
“I lasted three and one — half
years,” she said. "That's all I
could take of school. Then I. came
back to the clubs.”
Louise sings as though the song
"Bali Ha’i” were written es
pecially for her .Some like her
style, 3ome don’t. But none for
get Louise.
Bailey. A couple say, ‘no, more
“They tell me I sound like Pearl
like Lena Horne.’ I tell them I’m
not copying anybody. I’m j*st
Louise Brown. Whether it’s worth
anything or not, I'm simply me.
There ain't much you can do about
that,” she said.
Melancholia is Louise’s spec
ialty, but then the spirit moves
her she belts them out with equal
ease.
Louise has had opportunities to
try for big things. There have
been offers from television outlets
and one broadway show. She’s
turned them all dowm.
“I’m afriad to be a celebrity,”
she said. “I don’t want to live in
a fishbowl. Now, I’m still Louise
Brown. If I become a star, I’m
public property.”
Army May Close
Fort Jackson
WASHINGTON (IP) — Chairman
Carl Vinson of the House Armed
Services Committee said today the
Army will close four major bases
and a number of industrial plants
if its strength is cut as now
planned from one million to 900,
000 men.
Vinson said the four bases thrat
ened with closing are Fts. Jack
son, in South Carolina; Gordon,
in Georgia, Chaffee, in Arkansas;
and Carson, in Colorado.
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ANOTHER ROSSELLINI ROMANCE?—I n g r i d Bergman
walk* down a Capri, Italy, street, flanked by her daughter,
Jenny Ann Lindstrom, 18, and Franco Rossellini, 22, nephew of
Ingrid’s husband, Roberto Rossellini. Ingrid called an Italian
press rumor of an impending marriage between Jenny Ann and
Franco "so ridiculous that it is not worth a denial.” Jenny Ann
is snending the summer with her mother in Europe.
Everybody Wants To
Get Near The Queen
WASHINGTON (UP)—“I would like very much to be
invited to the garden party for Queen Elizabeth. .
“Enclosed please find check for
two tickets to the Maryland-Noth
Carolina football game. If possi
ble, please give me two as near
to the Queen as possible.”
These are samples ox the hun
dreds of letters, bolstered by as
many telephone calls, pouring into
the British Embassy and the Uni
versity of Mayland these days,
two months before England's roy
alty steps foot on American soil.
Presidents, senators, ambassa
dors we’ve got. But, in the words
of one observer, “thei'e's some
thing about the Queen of Eng
land.” . „
The enthusiasm that's a British
understatement being shown over
the October visit o£ Queen Eliza
beth and Prince Philip has amaz
ed even those who were around
for the traffic tie-ups and mob
scenes that marked the 1939 visit
of the late King George and his
Queen the present Queen Mother
Elizabeth and the brief 1951 visit
of then Princess Elizabeth and
her handsome consort.
No Names Mentioned
The British Embassy is too dip
lomatic to give any names or de
tails on the letters seeking invita
tions to the garden party which
will be given Oct. 18 Dy the Com
monwealth countries. But the wri
ters suggest all kinds of reasons
why they should be invited—from
an ancestor in common' with the
Queen to a distant relative who
happens to live in London.
The Commonwealth hosts hope
to hold the guest list down to
"about 2,000." Even then, the
handsome embassy lawn may look
more like the football game slated
for the following day. One big dif
ference will be a gay canopy cov
ering the traditional strawberries
and cream buffet and an outdoor
bar offering drinks from fruit,
juice to champagne.
At Maryland University, offi
cials are in a happy daze over
zooming ticket sale and have
quickly put Buckingham Palace
on their mailing list.
The Queen and Prince Philip
will receive with other fans a
handsome pre-season souvenir
schedule of Maryland football
games and the team line-up. The
booklet was snatched out of the
printer's hands when the roy;al
football date was announced so
that a full-page picture of the
Queen could be added.
Overflow Crowd Expected
The university plan's to rent
temporaxy stands to add 15,000
seats to the 35,000-capacity stadi
um. The only other times that ma
ny fans have been squeezed into
the field was for one big game
with UCLA and two games with
Navy.
Has royalty ever attended a
Maryland game before? “Not a
once,” said a happy public rela
tions officer. “Not even a presi
dent.”
Titalating university officials are
reports that Prince Philip has in
dicated a wish to go down onto
the field itself. Could he possibly
want to kick the pigskin? They’ll
be eadry if he does. And Gov.
Theodore It. McKeldin has been
well briefed to be ready to ex
plain all the intricacies of the
game to his royal guests.
The university is awaiting word
as to where the Queen desires to
sit during the game. But its own1
suggestion is for a specially built
box right on the 50-yard line.
Hill Portrait
Is Hung At
Home Office i
The portrait of L. W. Hill has
taken its place on the wall of the
sedate directors’ room of Carolina
Telephone and Telegraph Company
Hill was elevated to chairman of
the Board of Directors of the com
pany last May 17 after serving 12
years as president of the firm.
In brief ceremonies Friday after
noon, Mrs. Kathryn Hill Howard,
daughter of the former president,
speaking for Mrs. Hill and other
members of the family, presented
the portrait to the Board of Di
rectors and the company. Henry
T. Clark, who has served longer
,than any other member of the
Board of Directors, accepted the
portrait with warm words of praise
for Hill who was president of the
company; during the period of its
greatest development.
Little Miss Kathryn Marie How
ard, elder granddaughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Hill, participated in the
ceremony by unveiling the portrait.
Born in Darlington, South Caro
lina, Mr. Hill began his telephone
career in 1916 with Southern Bell
Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany. In 1943 he joined Carolina
Telephone and Telegraph Company
as its operating vice president, a
position he held until elected pre
sident of the company in 1945.
The presentation preceded the
regular meeting of the Board of
Directors and was attended, in ad
dition to Board members, by Mrs.
L. W. Hill, Romaine Howard, Sr.,
Romaine Howard, Jr., Ruth How
ard and officers of the company.
WORLD OBITUARIES
By UNITED PRESS
NEW YORK — Mrs. Thelma
Chrysler Foy, daughter of the late
automobile manufacturer Walter
B. Chrysler apd a leader in New ,
York society for more than 20
years, died Tuesday of leukemia.
—
MIAMI, — Julio Lozano Diaz, ■
72, president of the Republic of
Honduras from 1955 until last Oc
tober, died Tuesday of a cerbral
hemorrhage.
PHILADELPHIA — Dr. C. Ar
thur Kulp, 61, dean of the Wharton
School of finance and Commerce
at the University of Pennsylvania,
died Tuesday.
BOSTON — Mrs. Louise Martin,
64, wife of John Martin, dance
critic of the New York Times and
a former actress in the Chicago
Little Theater, died Tuesday.
NEW YORK — Raymond A j
Grant, 70, retired general man -j
ager of the American News Com
pany, magazine distributors, died
Monday.
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