CRITICISM
Just finished reading A Time for Remembering: The Ruth Bell Graham Story by Patricia Daniels Cornwell (Harper and Row, San Francisco, 1983). I found a number of items I’ll be using in coming days including the following response to criticism. When Billy Graham was coming to speak at Harringay in Feb 1954 there was a great deal of criticism of the entire project before they even arrived, especially at some unfortunately worded criticism of British socialism. I enjoyed the following account: The Grahams were warned that as a result of the controversy, the press would be on them like a pack of wild dogs. Sure enough, as the ship drew near Southampton the next afternoon, Ruth stared out a porthole and watched a tug pull alongside them. Twenty-five reporters and eleven photographers shoved their way aboard the S. S. United States. The Grahams had already abandoned their room, having been warned that it would be the pressmen’s first destination. Reporters and the public…
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