Six Weeks to Save the World

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Bookmarking this for myself really, is on iPlayer (for anyone in the UK) for about another three weeks or so.

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In 1955 US evangelist Billy Graham arrived on an 'All Scotland Crusade' aimed at saving the country for Christianity.

During the Cold War, amidst great austerity and mounting agnosticism, Graham arrived like a Christian Elvis and wowed more than a million people during a six-week residency at Glasgow's Kelvin Hall and major stadium events at Hampden, Ibrox and Tynecastle football grounds.

Six Weeks to Save the World tells the story of Graham's crusade through the eyes of the people who were there and the cameras which followed him.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0b3jprq/six-weeks-to-save-the-world
 
Tony thank you for this. I have just listened to all the clips
It was such a blessing. Loved when he said he was not afraid of dying, it was just a change of address.

I was brought up Catholic and we were not allowed a bible in those days. One afternoon I watched Billy Grahan on the tv. It was because of him that I eas desperate to get a bible. (1972 ).
We need another Billy Graham.
 
Shandy said:
Tony thank you for this. I have just listened to all the clips
It was such a blessing. Loved when he said he was not afraid of dying, it was just a change of address. ai face generator

I was brought up Catholic and we were not allowed a bible in those days. One afternoon I watched Billy Grahan on the tv. It was because of him that I eas desperate to get a bible. (1972 ).
We need another Billy Graham.
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That's wonderful to hear, Tony!
 
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Shandy said:
Tony thank you for this. I have just listened to all the clips
It was such a blessing. Loved when he said he was not afraid of dying, it was just a change of address.

I was brought up Catholic and we were not allowed a bible in those days. One afternoon I watched Billy Grahan on the tv. It was because of him that I eas desperate to get a bible. (1972 ).
We need another Billy Graham.
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Yes we do, but most of all we need Jesus insight & wisdom to be what He called us to be.
 
Shandy said:
I was brought up Catholic and we were not allowed a bible in those days.
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I can't know about your personal circumstances but as a general point that is untrue. I went to a Catholic school and we had religious education lessons where we used the Bible. Every pupil had one and that was in the 1950's. My parents had a Bible at home.
 
Steve8 said:
I can't know about your personal circumstances but as a general point that is untrue. I went to a Catholic school and we had religious education lessons where we used the Bible. Every pupil had one and that was in the 1950's. My parents had a Bible at home.
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We all had a Catachism but no one in our school had a bible. The mass was said in Latin, except for one verse from that gospel and one verse from the epistles.

I am not the only one who had this experience.
 
Shandy said:
We all had a Catachism but no one in our school had a bible. The mass was said in Latin, except for one verse from that gospel and one verse from the epistles.

I am not the only one who had this experience.
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You went to a very unusual school then. It was not my experience.

And your claim "I was brought up Catholic and we were not allowed a bible in those days" is completely false. No-one was banned from having a Bible.
 
Shandy said:
I do nit tell lies.
That is how it was for us
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Here is an interesting fact for you; Protestants in England banned the reading of the Bible. An act of Parliament in 1543 "forbade altogether the reading of scripture in private by "women… artificers, prentices, journeymen, serving men of the degrees of yeomen or under, husbandmen or labourers.", though noble and gentlewomen might read the Bible in private. Persistent clerical offenders against this Act might be burned, laymen were subject to forfeiture of goods and perpetual imprisonment.”
(Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars pp432-433)
 
I wadbt alive then
Nor do I get into arguments on the Internet.

I am non-denomination and leave all rge judgment to God.

God Bless You
 
Interesting:-
In 1538 Henry VIII ordered an English Bible to be in each parish church in England. The obvious influencers responsible were Thomas Cromwell and Thomas Cranmer. But some suggest that the King also agreed to this because of his second wife, Anne Boleyn (whom he had executed in 1536). Even before their marriage, Anne had suggested that there should be an English Bible in every church.
as Wiki says:-
he Act for the Advancement of True Religion (34 & 35 Hen. 8. c. 1) was an act of the Parliament of England passed on 12 May 1543. Its intent was to quash the possession and reading of Tyndale's translations of scripture by "the lower sortes", and any commentary that spread doctrines contrary to Henry's theology, particularly relating to the eucharist and baptism.

It restricted the reading of the English Bible to clerics, noblemen, the gentry and richer merchants, and foreshadowed the promulgation of future authorised versions.
Women below gentry rank, servants, apprentices and generally poor people were forbidden to read it, and certainly not to others.
Women of the gentry and the nobility were only allowed to read it in private.

Henry wanted to limit ordinary people from forming opinions
 
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