Religion: Heaven, Hell & Judgment Day

Evangelist Billy Sunday's likeliest successor was hard at work last week rounding up souls in the South. With a final rally that overflowed the 36,000-capacity University of South Carolina football stadium, hawk-nosed, handsome Evangelist Billy Graham climaxed a three-week revival at Columbia, S.C. that had stirred a total of 7,000 people to make "decisions for Christ."*

As he had in Los Angeles (TIME, Nov. 14), Billy Graham worked hard for the Lord. Flailing his arms, crouching and pointing, coiling his big (6 ft. 2 in.) frame around the Bible he read from, or passionately wrestling with the microphone, he gave his audiences...

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