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...contains the consecrated Host. This, Catholics believe, is the Real Presence of Christ. The monstrance of Protestantism, however, is the preaching of its ministers, and the faith of the Reformers was based on the assurance that "God met His people in His word." Using this comparison, Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, 76, longtime president of Union Theological Seminary and onetime (1943-44) Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., has written Communion Through Preaching (Scribner; $2.50), a short but striking book about the preaching sacrament of Protestantism -and how poorly a lot of Protestants understand...
Currently, Dr. Coffin finds, there are few congregations which do not suffer from a surplus of "ministerial chat." "A talk on current events, or on some social evil, or on managing one's feelings, escaping one's worries, or overcoming fears, on 'integrating one's personality' ... is hardly the vehicle for the personal approach of Almighty God eliciting adoration, trust and love...
...only one, his frail daughter Dolly, ever tugs very hard at Ase's heartstrings. One winter day Ase's mother, half-crazed by Ben's continued absence, takes Dolly walking in a blizzard and loses her. Ase buries his child in a tiny, hand-hewn coffin...
Boydstun ordered loudspeakers rigged outside the funeral home, engaged the Rev. David Soper of the Assembly of God ("If we aren't careful, we could have a cannibalistic attitude in America . . ." said the reverend of Cook's career) and prepared for a big funeral. The coffin, Boydstun assured the public, would be reopened before burial to allow all a good, last look. But that was as far as the undertaker got with his plans...
...with legal action, and demanded that he deliver the body to them in Galena, Kans. Boydstun, who had begun getting black looks from people in Comanche, hastened to oblige. He laid three dozen celluloid roses on Billy's chest, put a plastic boutonniere in his lapel, loaded the coffin into his hearse and took it to them. That night a handful of Billy's kin took him quietly to a rural cemetery at Lone Elm, Kans. and buried him by the light of flashlights. Said Undertaker Boydstun: "The deal backfired...