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...families of America headed home after the closing hymn, they looked like the people of many another congregation across the land-people with steady faith in themselves and the world in which God had placed them...
...halfway up the Widner steps before he heard the singing from Appleton, faint through window and curtain, dropping back to him from the library's front. He stood a moment, hearing the whole church catch up a hymn and call back to the choir. There was no money here, no colored lights, no tinsel; Vag had the Yard to himself for a time, alone with leafless trees and space and darkness...
From the Jukeboxes. In 1947, Scott flew to Lake Success. He heard the jukeboxes of America blaring the hit of the day, Bongo, Bongo, Bongo, I Don't Want to Leave the Congo. Unlike the missionaries in the jukebox hymn, the Rev. Scott was not so sure that "civilization is fine...
...preaching had been carried on. In the summer of 1946, when Bonn's war-ruined university was reestablishing itself in a half-blasted castle, Theologian Barth was invited to return. Lecturing at 7 o'clock in the morning, "after we had sung a psalm or a hymn to cheer us up," competing with the racket of rubble-clearing machinery outside his classroom, Barth spoke, without notes, on the Apostles' Creed. The 24 lectures that resulted deal, phrase by phrase, and in some instances word by word, with this oldest confession of the Church...
...minute hand neared midnight on the last day of Congress' session, Peronista deputies sang the Argentine national hymn and then boisterously burst into Peronista Boys. Said one Radical deputy as he surveyed the week's work: "I move that the Argentine flag be flown at half-mast...