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In other own right. towers.sbts.edu March 2018 TOWERS 3 REPORT Newslog 'An epic era of evangelical history has come to an end' By Aaron Cline Hanbury and James A. Smith Sr. William Franklin “Billy” Graham, the Southern Baptist Dean of Southern Seminary’s Billy Graham School of “In many ways, Billy Graham did not pioneer mass evangelist famous for his evangelistic crusades around Missions, Evangelism and Ministry Adam W. Greenway evangelism and crusade evangelism; he perfected it,” the world, died Feb. 21 at his home in Asheville, N.C., a in a statement: said Mohler. “What others had done on a smaller scale spokesman for the family confirmed. He was 99. "The passing of Billy Graham marks the end of an era in and infrequent regularity, he began to do in a way I do not Graham, the internationally renowned evangelist and American Christianity," said Greenway. "He was incred- think can be replicated or equaled. evangelical leader, preached during his ministry to nearly ibly passionate for evangelism and he influenced every Graham was born to Morrow and William “Frank” 215 million people in more than 185 countries, more than level of American life. He was also passionate about theo- Graham, Nov. 7, 1918, near Charlotte, North Carolina, anyone else in history, according to his organization’s logical education and the training of the next generation four days before the armistice that led to the end of the website. He reached incalculably more people through of evangelists and evangelistic pastors. First World War and exactly one year after the Bolshe- television, video, film and web. "That's personified by his support for the creation of the vik Revolution in Russia. “An epic era of evangelical history has come to an end. Billy Graham School at Southern Seminary — the only grad- When Graham was six years old, his father took him Billy Graham was not only a titanic figure in evangelical- uate school to ever allowed to carry his name. I think his to hear the former Chicago White Stockings centerfield- ism, but in world history and perhaps represents the last greatest legacy would not only be those whom he personally er-turned-evangelist Billy Sunday. The young Graham of a kind,” R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of The Southern impacted through his evangelistic ministry, but the scores absorbed the entire experience. The energetic Sunday Baptist Theological Seminary, said in a statement. of pastors and evangelists who have been trained to preach would leave a lasting impact on Graham. “He dominated 20th century American evangelicalism the same gospel that he so faithfully proclaimed.” In college, while walking around an empty golf course and remained a major figure on the world stage throughout Following his evangelistic crusade in Los Angeles near Tampa, Fla., Graham committed to becoming a gospel most of the 20th century in a way that we can envision in 1949, Graham was a staple in American public life. preacher. Following this first college experience at the no evangelical leader in our times. He was a man of deep Through Graham’s ministry, the Billy Graham Evange- Florida Bible Institute (now Trinity College) in Temple conviction whose passionate heartbeat was for the gospel listic Association, innumerable people have heard and Terrace, Fla., Graham enrolled at Wheaton College in of the Lord Jesus Christ.” responded to the gospel message of Jesus Christ. Wheaton, Illinois. There he met his future wife, Ruth Bell. 4 TOWERS March 2018 towers.sbts.edu REPORT NewslogFollowing a long, uncertain engagement, culture, and his prodding of men like Carl dedicated its Billy Graham Room in the and evangelism at the seminary. Graham and Ruth married during the F.H. Henry to defend a Christianity heavily James P. Boyce Centennial Library, where In October of 2013, Mohler reported summer of 1943, two months after they affects the mission that Southern Semi- the seminary’s Archives and Special Col- to the evangelist about the progress of both graduated from Wheaton. nary attempts to continue in the training of lections houses its Billy Graham Collection. the Billy Graham School at the 20-year During the early days of his marriage, pastors, scholars, missionaries and coun- The collection, recording approxi- anniversary of its establishment and Graham pastored a small church in selors who will defend truth in a secular age. mately 30 years of the Billy Graham introduced him to the school’s new Western Springs, Illinois. While there, Indeed, “Graham was the organizing Evangelistic Association’s crusade dean, Greenway. an area pastor who preached over the center of evangelicalism in the 20th efforts around the world, contains infor- Also in the meeting, Mohler asked radio asked Graham to assume his radio century, playing a significant role in the mation not readily found in books and Graham to offer advice for the stu- preaching. He immediately saw the vast formation of key evangelical institutions.