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...just bootleg the Gospel," a well-tailored young groceryman told an audience of 1,500 Baptist men in Fort Worth one night last week. Then Layman Howard Edward Butt Jr., 26, preached a sermon on one of his favorite themes: Christians must have the dedication to their cause that Communists have for theirs. His listeners liked it so well that they asked him to come back next August and preach an eight-day revival...
What Groceryman Butt means when he calls himself a Gospel-bootlegger is simply that he is not a minister and has no formal license to preach. Moreover, his regular job in the world is responsible and demanding; he is vice president of the HEB grocery chain, one of the most successful in Texas, with 60 stores and a gross of more than $60 million a year. But he believes that laymen have a real preaching role: "Your listeners will figure 'He wouldn't be talking about religion if he hadn't experienced it,' and secondly...
...Double Life. At Baylor University in Waco, Texas, Baptist Butt specialized in the Bible and business administration, after graduation put in a year at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary studying New Testament, social ethics, preaching. Then, convinced that the ministry was not for him, he married and went to work in the family's business. But invitations to speak came to him more and more often. Billy Graham asked him to help out at several of his revivals, and before long, young Howard found himself living a kind of Christian double life...
...incidence of cheating appears to be dependent on what is being tested. The most dishonest answer papers, Cozma reported, are found among those turned in for admission to Law School. Butt even here, he added, the percentage is small...
...Australia the Duke of Edinburgh became the butt of some friendly hazing when he dropped in for a look at Melbourne University. As he stepped from his car, an honor guard of students, bearing mops and dressed as Eastern potentates, rolled out a moth-eaten carpet...