Transcript and audio file of an excerpt from an oral history interview of Torrey Johnson by Paul Hollinger in 1993 for radio station WDAC of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Johnson talks about the evaluation meeting the day after the Memorial Day Rally and the comments of evangelist Percy Crawford. From the Papers of Torrey Johnson, Collection 285, audio tape T41. Duration = 1:16 minutes.

JOHNSON: Percy Crawford preached at the first large Youth For Christ rally in this country!

HOLLINGER: Is that right? Where was that?

JOHNSON: That was Soldier Field, Chicago. I invited Percy Crawford to preach there that night. And he made a very significant statement. The morning afterward we had a sort of [pauses] analysis of what happened the night before.

HOLLINGER: Yes.

JOHNSON: There had been upwards of 70,000 people! Unbelievable that came to the meeting! And Percy pulled out of his pocket a little red thing that we used to call the Horton’s Gospel of John. The Horton’s Gospel of John was a Gospel of John with notes, showing how to be saved. And Percy said, “I always carry this little Horton’s Gospel of John in my pocket. I give to the elevator man on the hotel, I give it to somebody in the here and there.” He said, “Fellows, we had a big meeting yesterday. But don’t let those big meetings deprive you of one-on-one contact.” So Billy had....Percy had both.

HOLLINGER: Yes.

JOHNSTON: The one-on-one and the big campaigns.

HOLLINGER: Yes.

JOHNSTON: And what a job he did! He was a part of the inspiration of my life.