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Television: The Big Sleep

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Midway in his four-week, $270,000 stint for network TV (TIME, June 17), Evangelist Billy Graham delivered himself of some inner thoughts on the medium last week before a Manhattan Crusade congregation (nontelevised) of 16,500:

“Many persons are being lulled to sleep —spiritual sleep—by entertainment today —TV. movies, and so on. Many are oblivious to God’s grace and lack of Christian discipline. We need more discipline in our lives; we need to think. Everything is predigested for us. It takes real self-discipline to turn off TV and pick up the Bible.”

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