Nuggets from Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny
Most amazing is the fact that Templeton continued to represent the National Council of Churches on “preaching missions” across the United States and Canada. In spite of the loss of his own “faith,” Templeton saw an average of about 150 “converts” each night who mostly “stayed converted.” Six months after his meetings in Evansville, Indiana, for example, where 91,000 out of a population of 128,000 attended, a survey “showed that church attendance was 17 percent higher than it had been before he came. . . .” Incredibly, with no faith of his own, he was for three years Director of Evangelism of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A.
