Atlanta Daily World

President Eisenhower Appeals To The Churches

Holding out the teachings of the evangelist Billy Graham,
President Eisenhower at a recent press conference, advanced that
there is a task for the pulpit in the spreading of this doctrine
of moderation, so much in order at the present time.

The President was quoted as saying - Mr. Graham at home
and abroad, tries to "promote mediation instead of conflict, toler-
ance instead of prejudice." He also added, that he believed the
pulpits have a very great responsibility here.

Billy Graham might well be referred to as that evangelist
of peace, who is his own director and all around the world
he has preached the doctrine of fellowship and brotherhood.

The President took cognizance of his philosophy in discussing
or referring to the Negro bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.

This nation, under God was founded upon the principles of the
Christian religion. The early settlers for the most part were devout men,
fearing God and loving their fellowmen. Here they sought the four
freedoms, those counterparts of a free republic, and on down through time
the pulpit has been looked to as a standardizer, a prayer station
and that basic essential of the gospel and its impelling power.

In every crisis this country has witnessed, the church came
in as a moderator of the impulses and morals of the people. The
pulpit has seen service in the progressive measures incorporated
in our social usage and civil laws. It is strictly a Democratic
institution founded upon the fatherhood of God and the brother-
hood of man.

Others of those who labor under the stress and strain of un-
bearable regulations and distasteful and inconsistent restrictions,
might find much of a solution in the power of the gospel.

God does regulate the affairs of men and in that Biblical in-
junction, "All things work together for good to them that love
the Lord." One finds much consolation in the great President of
the United States invoking a gospel creed that has saved the
world.

The gospel truly knows no races, creeds nor prejudices; it
advocates no disunion of society based upon the separation and
ultimate punishment of individuals for what fate brought upon
them.

Billy Graham must not have labored in vain as he has
striven to offer the gospel to his own people first, then to those
of Pagan lands.

Now comes the President of the United States to emphasize
the duty of the pulpit. Let the pulpit get on the firing line and
thunder from its immortal heights that food which was designated
at the Last Supper and remitted on Calvary.