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...destiny had other plans for him, as Martin recounts in his exhaustively researched, revelatory biography A Prophet with Honor (Morrow). One day in 1934, 30 or so of the local farmers, squeezed by the Depression and despairing of their future, gathered at the Graham farm for a day of prayer. When Billy arrived home after school and saw the crowd in the grove, he explained to a friend, "Oh, I guess they are just some fanatics % who talked Dad into letting them use the place." Yet it was only a few months later that Billy had his own conversion experience...
...said never again," recalls Graham, who put everyone on straight salary and later set up a board dominated by outsiders. (Graham has, however, ministered to his wayward fellow preachers; after Jim Bakker's fall from grace, he quietly visited the imprisoned televangelist in Minnesota for a prayer session.) For years Graham's annual salary was $69,150 plus a $23,050 housing allowance, but last April his board raised that to $101,250 plus $33,750. He was given homes in Florida and California but donated them to Christian causes...
...recent years, there has come a curious reversal. Fundamentalist leaders who once shunned the political realm began to move forcefully into it, bearing a moral agenda for family values and school prayer, against abortion and gay rights. And Graham, in a sense, returned to the pure power of the pulpit, preaching as forcefully as ever of the need for moral renewal but without allying himself with the political activism of the religious right. "I can identify with them on theology, probably, in many areas," he says, "but in the political emphases they have, I don't, because...
Healing by prayer, she has blessed candles that she gives to those who believe, --an advertisement for Psychic Mrs. Gina...
...program opened and closed with a prayer and alternated between readings and four spirituals, which Du Bois referred to as "Sorrow Songs...