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Win over the Next Generation - 1945

A youthful Billy Graham.

Introduction

Beginning in Manhattan in 1941, youth revivals touched several major American cities. Large crowds turned out and journalists noticed. Charles Neville, writing for the 18 August, 1945, edition of Saturday Home Magazine had this to say:

Quote

“A million and more teen-age girls and boys have decided that boogie-woogie is old stuff and definitely on the way out. They don’t sing the blues anymore. They sing of joy and hope in a world they intend to change for the better . . . a new Saturday-night swing to salvation . . . is sweeping the country, and youth is in command. …

“Youth for Christ is drawing the bobby-soxers and their boy friends away from the juke boxes and darkboothed hideaways to a streamlined revival of that indestructible thing—the human soul . . . Youth for Christ talks turkey to its young audiences, and they love it!”

Source

Shelley, Bruce L. “The Young and the Zealous.” Christian History 92.

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