Six Decades Ago: Billy Graham’s New Zealand Crusades
Billy Graham embarked upon a program which followed the pattern already established in the preliminary crusades in New Zealand, the visitors first impression of this island nation is of a land of majestic beauty, its centuries old mountain peaks and volcanic craters giving graphic evidence of the mighty hand of the creator.
Here.
The rugged monuments of nature dwarf the buildings of man.
Yet these buildings to give evidence of the working of God and from the churches of New Zealand came a United Fellowship which was most heartening.
Christianity has also embraced the native race.
The Maoris who untold eons ago made New Zealand their home, their churches testifying to the evangelistic endeavors of an earlier day.
It was the Maoris who gave Billy Graham a traditional welcome which echoed their Polynesian ancestry.
The capital city of Wellington sits astride the hills which surround its harbor, its capitol buildings of the frequent meeting site for international governmental conferences.
And in Wellington’s athletic park, 25,000 persons were on hand for the first of the two crusade meetings, the head of the government, the right honorable Walter Nash Prime Minister of New Zealand extended the official welcome to Billy Graham in Auckland.
Billy. Graham addressed the largest crowds to attend religious meetings in the history of New Zealand.
Something down inside of me tells me there’s a God.
I took my work in college in the university and anthropology and we never found a tribe or a people anywhere in the world that did not believe in God.
It is innate to believe in God. The ancient marries and the pollen nations believed in God.
The American Indians believed in God. The Africans believe in God. The Indians believe in God.
The men high up in the roof of the world in Tibet tonight, believe in God.
It is instinctive for us to believe. There is a God.
The Bible starts out by saying in the beginning was God? It doesn’t try to prove God or explain God.
It accepts God. It presupposes God.
God is, the Bible says concerning God, I will not share my glory with another.
And so I want to say as John, the Baptist said, he pointed to the lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world.
And he said to the disciples, I must decrease and he must increase.
And as we leave, I would ask you follow Christ.
I hope that you will remember us in one sense.
But in another sense, I hope you do not. I want you to remember only Christ.
We have come here only as his ambassador and his message to tell you that He is the lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world.
And I hope that all of you will go back to your churches where the new Vega with a new determination, with a new vision to live for Jesus Christ.
As never before. May God bless you. And thank you for coming out here.
Here.
The rugged monuments of nature dwarf the buildings of man.
Yet these buildings to give evidence of the working of God and from the churches of New Zealand came a United Fellowship which was most heartening.
Christianity has also embraced the native race.
The Maoris who untold eons ago made New Zealand their home, their churches testifying to the evangelistic endeavors of an earlier day.
It was the Maoris who gave Billy Graham a traditional welcome which echoed their Polynesian ancestry.
The capital city of Wellington sits astride the hills which surround its harbor, its capitol buildings of the frequent meeting site for international governmental conferences.
And in Wellington’s athletic park, 25,000 persons were on hand for the first of the two crusade meetings, the head of the government, the right honorable Walter Nash Prime Minister of New Zealand extended the official welcome to Billy Graham in Auckland.
Billy. Graham addressed the largest crowds to attend religious meetings in the history of New Zealand.
Something down inside of me tells me there’s a God.
I took my work in college in the university and anthropology and we never found a tribe or a people anywhere in the world that did not believe in God.
It is innate to believe in God. The ancient marries and the pollen nations believed in God.
The American Indians believed in God. The Africans believe in God. The Indians believe in God.
The men high up in the roof of the world in Tibet tonight, believe in God.
It is instinctive for us to believe. There is a God.
The Bible starts out by saying in the beginning was God? It doesn’t try to prove God or explain God.
It accepts God. It presupposes God.
God is, the Bible says concerning God, I will not share my glory with another.
And so I want to say as John, the Baptist said, he pointed to the lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world.
And he said to the disciples, I must decrease and he must increase.
And as we leave, I would ask you follow Christ.
I hope that you will remember us in one sense.
But in another sense, I hope you do not. I want you to remember only Christ.
We have come here only as his ambassador and his message to tell you that He is the lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world.
And I hope that all of you will go back to your churches where the new Vega with a new determination, with a new vision to live for Jesus Christ.
As never before. May God bless you. And thank you for coming out here.
