“The Song in the Night,” date unknown. Sermons—Miscellaneous, Q-Z, Box 2, Folder 14, Carl F. H. Henry Collection, Gleason Archer Archives, Deerfield, Illinois. This story, of the angels and the shepherds, opens at night. It is the story of darkness and fright, which ends in exultation and jubilee. Life has many chapters like that, but…

After hearing the gospel of Jesus Christ proclaimed by evangelist Mordecai Ham at an evangelistic meeting in Charlotte, NC in 1934, Billy Graham, along with his friend Grady Wilson, responded to the invitation as the hymn “Just as I Am” was sung. This beautiful and moving gospel song, written by Charlotte Elliott in 1835, became…