was actually wrought in both Cindy Walker’s and Redd Harper’s lives when they came to know Christ as their own personal Saviour. The last scene takes place back at the old ranch house where their father held their family circles and read the Bible years before. The voices of these two kids who have grown up together to own and operate the ranch, will never leave your memory. As Billy said so forcefully from the platform, “ Don’t pat me on the back and say it’s a great p icture- let’s give all credit and glory to the Lord.” *Head of Field Work Department of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles.
When suddenly, after fifteen years of stubborn refusal, he sees the light and his tired face softens in a smile of sur render; when his horny hand reaches out to his bedside table for the little red Gospel of John which had been wisely left by Barrows,; when his sister’s pray ers at last are answered and she ex claims, “ Oh, Jim!” throwing herself across his bed; when he tells her that he “ has been riding the wrong trail all through his life” and that he now has made up his mind “to turn around and ride God’s way,” something swells up inside your chest. You see a man turn to Christ, you see a miracle wrought there before your eyes, like the real one that
A Texan Sees “Mr. Texas’’ By Eugene Poole* F ROM the viewpoint of a Christian and a Texan, I was deeply impressed with Evangelist Billy Graham’s full- length color and sound motion picture, “ Mr. Texas,” when on October 1 its première showing drew a record-break ing crowd at the Hollywood Bowl. Having been born and reared thirty miles south of Fort Worth, Texas, I have been in Abilene frequently so nat urally I was interested when I heard that many of the “ shots” had been made in and around these two Texas cities. Then, too, I wanted to see what Billy had been calling “ the first Christian Western” and eager to find out how an evangelist could spread the gospel through this modern medium. So I went along with the 25,000 who packed every seat and even the hill-sides around the bowl. Hundreds were turned away from the gates without seeing the picture. Among the attendants were many movie celebrities and outstanding Southland clerical leaders. The unusual picture co-stars Cindy Walker and Redd Harper as sister and brother with a real background of Texas ranch-life. Redd is represented as a very ambitious man. His sights are aimed high—so high that he covets the name and place of “ Mr. Texas” among his friends and acquaintances. The fact that he leaves his ranch home to follow the rodeo as a top performer brings sadness to his sister’s heart. The burden becomes greater when she attends one of Billy Graham’s meetings in the Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum at Fort Worth and accepts Christ as her personal Saviour. Her brother’s stiff-necked hard-headed attitude drives him out of the meeting. Again he attempts to prove his ability as a bronc-buster by riding one of the “bad hosses” on the ranch. He is thrown and badly injured, and is taken to a hos pital in an unconscious condition with only a 50-50 chance to survive. It is here at the hospital that the sister is used of the Lord to call in one of Billy Graham’s team, Cliff Barrows, who tells this lanky, sun-burned “ Mr. Texas” how God loves him and how He sent His Only Begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to die for him. Then in the days of slow recuperation “Mr. Texas” listens to Billy Graham’s mes sages over his national program, “ The Hour of Decision,” on a little bedside radio his loving sister has provided for just that purpose. Few scenes, if any, will ever be thrown on the silver screen to prove more effectively that “ the gospel of Christ” is “ the power of God unto sal vation to every one that believeth.” As you sit there spellbound, watching the hardened face of that cowboy as he listens to Billy’s power-packed sermon on the radio, your heart aches for him and your eyes cease to see clearly through tears that cannot be held back.
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Dr. Louis T. Talbot, President of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, and Editor in Chief of The King’s Business, will show his amazing new series of colored pic tures of the South American countries he visited recently, “Adventuring the Andes and the Amazon for Christ.” These films cover the fields and missionary work in Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Venezuela, the Argentine and republics of Central America and Mexico, and will be shown in the churches listed below:
CHURCH Kelso High School Auditorium First Presbyterian Church Youth For Christ Hillyard Baptist Church Meeting: Lewis & Clark Auditorium First Baptist Church First Baptist Church Youth For Christ Ahtanum Pioneer Congregational Church Sunnyside Presbyterian Church Youth For Christ Central Baptist Church Youth For Christ
CITY
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KELSO, WASH.
Oct. 30 Oct. 31-
BREMERTON, WASH.
Nov. 4
BREMERTON, WASH. SPOKANE, WASH. COEUR D’ALENE, IDA. WALLA WALLA, WASH.
Nov. 3
Nov. 6-7
Nov. 8 Nov. 9 Nov. 10
YAKIMA, WASH. Nov. 11-14 YAKIMA, WASH. Nov. 15
SUNNYSIDE, WASH.
Nov. 17 SEATTLE, WASH. Nov. 18-21 VICTORIA, B.C., Canada Nov. 24 PORTLAND, ORE. Nov. 25-30 PORTLAND, ORE. Dec. 2 SEATTLE, WASH. Dec. 9-12 POMONA, CALIF.
Evangel Baptist Church Emmanuel Tabernacle First Baptist Church
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