Evangelism: Mellowing Magic

His blond hair is graying and, at 50, Billy Graham tells his audiences that he is "on the sunset side now." His right index finger still slices the air magisterially, and his resonant voice has lost little of its oratorical control. The Bible still hangs open in his big left hand as he moves back from the lectern, then up to it again. The message is as sternly fundamental as ever: "God says I command you to repent." Still, something was missing last week as Graham crusaded in Manhattan's new Madison Square Garden....

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