Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Criticizing the increasingly rapid pace of modern life, George A. Buttrick gave his first sermon as Chairman of the Board of Preachers yesterday in Memorial Chapel. Buttrick said that it is impossible to know life's goal while constantly hurrying, and pointed out that Christ had none of our excessive speed. "We have the appearance of people pursued," said Buttrick. "This is strange, for our human wisdom, even on the secular level, endorses God's method of slowness...
...Prayer of Jesus," the holy man says, "is a constant, uninterrupted calling upon the divine Name of Jesus with the lips, in the spirit, in the heart . . . during every occupation, at all times, in all places, even during sleep. The appeal is couched in these terms: 'Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me.' One who accustoms himself to this appeal . . . can no longer live without it, and it will continue to voice itself within him of its own accord." The peasant's teacher trains him to say the prayer over and over until he can repeat...
...your Dec. 6 Letters column: I wonder if Bill Kurschinski really understands the New Testament. He claims the Virgin Mary never influenced Christ. Tell him to read carefully the wedding in Cana...
...Kurschinski would refer to John 2:1-11 (King James), he would find that the Mother of Christ was instrumental in the first miracle-the turning of water into wine at the marriage feast of Cana. Truly, then, if she were responsible for the first miracle, she certainly must have been instrumental in many others since...
...which they will be indoctrinated, converted to atheism and pledged to the service of the state. Last week the Evangelical Church delivered a quick counterpunch. Children participating in such ceremonies, proclaimed a pastoral letter read in East Zone pulpits, will not be eligible for church confirmation: "Our Lord Jesus Christ said, 'He that is not with Me is against...