Billy Graham’s early education was almost as poor as Abraham Lincoln’s. A primary reason was the low level of teaching. At Sharon high School, deep in the country, two or three of the teachers had never been to college. Yet if the teaching had been better he would have made little use of it, for by the age of ten or eleven he reckoned horse-sense enough for a future farmer, an attitude slightly

abetted by his father, stoutly abetted by his father (Pollock, 3).

The one redeeming feature of Billy’s early intellectual lif

been to all the world’s power and glory, well, ‘tis the mark of a Great Soul (Aikman, 59).

of questions and answers on living a Christian life. Today it reaches five million readers (Garfield, 18).” Decision

Magazine, the official publication of the association, has a circulation of 1.7 million in one hundred sixty countries making it one of the largest religious periodicals in the world (BGEA, 7).

Globally, statistics of popularity are harder to gauge, since many countries forbid any kind of popularity survey (their own leaders might not fare so well). It is reasonable to say, though, that no American has been held in higher esteem around the world than Graham on a consistent basis for the past four decades, and almost certainly no American’s name is as well known. At the headquarters of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in Minneapolis, letters have been delivered from around the world with the simple address, “Billy Graham, U.S.A.” or-entertainingly, no doubt, for the post office-“Belly Grayem, Minihapuls, Menisoldiem (Aikman, 4).”

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