I 11ad one passion and that was tO win souls<br > These words ofBilly Grahamspoken when he<br > first began tO preachmight welI be the cor<br >nerstone of his remarkable ministryThis be<br >loved evangelist s careerwhich extends over four<br > decades and has brought him tO international<br > prominencenOW comes fully and richly tO light<br > in this popular biography<br > Based on DrGrahamS private papersbiog<br >rapher John Pollock s carefully researched pre<br >sentation examines the lire and ministry of a man<br > whose unstinting efforts tO bring people tO Christ<br > have made him one of the major religious figures<br > of the twentieth centuryThis firsthand account<br > offers an insiderS glimpse of the man who am<br >bodies the spirit of Christianity tO millions of<br > faithful followers<br > Since his rise tO fame in Los Angeles in 1949<br > where a threeweek crusade in canvas tents<br > brought him national attentionGraham has vis<br >ited sixty-five countriesaddressed more than 90<br > million people face-to-face and many others<br > through radio and television<br > Poliock deftly sketches GrahamS transforming<br > calluncompromising faithand extraordinary<br > 1aborsas wetI as outlines the history of events<br > that led the evangelist to wide recognitionThis<br > completelyupto-dateaccountofGraham scareer<br > shows how the seventies and eighties are perhaps<br > the most decisive time in GrahamS ministry<br >during which he has emerged from a national tO<br > an international religious figure<br > To Aff the Nations selects major episodes from<br > these dramatic years ofGrahamS lifeincluding a<br > detailed account of GrahamS controversial visit<br > tO MOSCOW in 1982 where barriers surrounding<br > the Christian church were brokenhis crusade<br > in South Africa where apartheid was lifted and<br > South Africans enjoyed their first interracial<br > gatheringand the largest known religious<br > gathering everwhen over a million Koreans<br > assembled in Seoul tO hear DrGraham speak<br >