Evangelical Ephemera

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Many evangelicals are deeply concerned with the race problem but are unwilling to knuckle under the socialistic - and almost Communistic - approach of the liberal. There is evidence that there is considerable “red activity” inciting today’s racial revoIution…

I do believe that the Bible teaches racial equality apart from forced integration. We must help educate and evangelize the Negro. For the record, we have experienced the privilege of having Negro members in our fellowship. They are first-class members. We are one in Christ! However, we have not promoted the one-race-one-world-one-church delusion which we believe to be Satan’s doings and not God’s design.

Ernest L. Laycock
North Syracuse Baptist Church
North Syracuse, N. Y.

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"Evangelist Billy Graham made headlines by accepting his first invitation to speak at a Roman Catholic institution, and he chose the occasion to preach “a straight Gospel sermon.”
The 1600-seat gymnasium of Belmont Abbey College near Charlotte, North Carolina, was packed to capacity to hear the Baptist minister call for personal commitment to Christ and to warn against a “second-hand faith.” Included in the audience were Belmont Abbey’s 600 students and novices as well as its faculty, plus students, priests, nuns, and monks from nearby Protestant and Catholic institutions.
Graham cited passages in the writings of Bishop Fulton J Sheen that assert the principle of the New Birth. He also quoted an Eastern monk whose book insists on a similarly personal relationship with Christ.
Graham issued an implicit invitation at the close of his 3-minute address but did not ask students to step forward or raise hands. He usually foregoes this practice at educational institutions unless the sermon is part of an evangelistic crusade."