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15-December-1999 
99422 
 
    Magazine Names Greatest Preachers of the 20th Century 
 
    Presbyterians figure prominently on list 
 
    by Religion News Service 
 
WASHINGTON-"Preaching," a bimonthly magazine, has named the greatest 
preachers of the 20th century, with the Rev. Billy Graham and the Rev. 
Martin Luther King, Jr. among its top 10. 
 
    The No. 1 ranking was given to the late James S. Stewart, a Scottish 
preacher and New Testament professor who served a two-year term in the1960s 
as moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. 
 
    "His books such as `Heralds of God' ... and "A Faith to Proclaim"... 
have inspired tens of thousands of preachers to strive for greater 
effectiveness in their proclamation of God's Word," wrote Michael Duduit, 
the editor of the magazine. 
 
    The rest of the top 5 are, in order: evangelist Billy Graham; the late 
George Buttrick, an English-born Congregational preacher who served almost 
30 years as pastor of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York; the 
late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.; and the late Harry Emerson 
Fosdick, a pastor of New York's Riverside Church. 
 
    The rest of the top 10 are, in order: the late G. Campbell Morgan, an 
English-born minister who served in the United States and England and 
influenced evangelical preaching; the late William Edwin Sangster, an 
evangelical Methodist preacher who had the largest Sunday-evening 
congregation in London during World War II; John R.W. Stott, a popular 
evangelical preacher who is rector emeritus of All Souls Church in London 
and director of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity; the 
late D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, a Welsh preacher who served as pastor of 
Westminster Chapel in London from 1943 to 1968; and the late Clarence 
Macartney, who served as pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh. 
 
    Duduit said the preachers were labeled as "great" based on their 
influence on church and society and on their fellow preachers. 
 
    The "second ten," in order are: Leslie Weatherhead; George W. Truett; 
R.G. Lee; Norman Vincent Peale; Peter Marshall; E. Stanley Jones; Donald 
Grey Barnhouse; Ralph Sockman; W.A. Criswell; and Gardner C. Taylor. 
 
    The list of top preachers was based on rankings by Preaching's Board of 
Contributing Editors, who reviewed nominations from readers of the 
magazine.   

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