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Impoverished Christian pop fails to satisfy the pilgrims

GPEATER NEW YORK BILLY GRAHAM CRUSADE

Flushing Meadows Corona Park

June 24-26

LORD HAVE MERCY

The 230,000 fans that shuttled into Corona Park two weekends ago composed easily the most apathetic crowd ever to weather a three-day rock festival. The bands dutifully provided them with one thing, but the crowd was here for another-the daily sermons by Reverend Billy Graham: a cardigan throwback, in the age of the megachurch, to the days of quaint televangelism, leading what might be his final Crusade revival meeting. Watching even the celebrated Christian acts that accompanied Graham was a bit like enduring the dull pageantry of an ...

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