Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Head of Christ...
...want complete silence throughout the cathedral at this moment when persons are being shown how to give their lives to God . . . It is simple to receive Christ . . . Will you open the door?" (For some 30 seconds Evangelist Green prays silently, his head in his hands...
...center of the town, they overturned a small commercial van and caused damage of serious consequence to the business of its owner-driver, who was in it at the time. They also uprooted a traffic beacon and thrust it through the glass door of a shop. Near Christ's Lane, a car was seized and attempts were made to overturn it. The occupants, an old lady and gentleman, were severely shaken and the lady collapsed...
Disquieting Miracles. The writing about Christ is reverent, but matter-of-fact. And the style is so flat that Dr. Douglas can speak of biblical characters being "in the driver's seat." Dr. Douglas tells a good story, but he has none of the magic-lantern slide color of a Feuchtwanger or the ingenious imagination of a Robert Graves. The miracles he describes sparingly, without dramatizing and without comment; they are made to seem unsettling and disturbing events. It is not the joy of His love that the book stresses, but the disquiet and the puzzlement that word...
...them the strange, busy air of jaunty sermons. The Big Fisherman is no exception. The ordinariness that makes the book attractive when it deals with the minor characters becomes something of a handicap when it is called upon to picture the disciples together, or the eternal wonder of the Christ story...