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Southern Baptist Conference President Bailey Smith is right. God does not hear the prayers of any person who says Jesus Christ is not the Messiah [Sept. 29]. Nor does God listen to the needs of every person who calls on him. It has nothing to do with racism, culture or class. (The Rev.) Norman Koop Deerfield Street...
...then you have a Jew to pray. With all due respect to those dear people, my friend, God Almighty does not hear the prayer of a Jew. For how in the world can God hear the prayer of a man who says that Jesus Christ is not the true Messiah? It is blasphemous...
Ignoring a four-foot spray-painted "NO REAGUN" (sic) message, which appeared on the front of the convention hall despite 24-hour police protection, the messiah from the West marched into Cobo and reminded his disciples, "This is a crusade, not a campaign...
...musicians -all that would fit on the church stage -played an expansive, brassy program well suited to the occasion. To show off the 125-voice chorus (65 from the church's own choir, the rest from other Harlem groups), there were several selections from Handel's Messiah, two of them featuring Tenor Seth McCoy. To give the church's five-manual, 4,000-pipe organ a workout, Organist Leonard Raver and the orchestra galloped through the finale of Saint-Saëns' Symphony...
...these and other mystics gained Brown's ear, the Governor's political pros resigned, including Finance Chairman Anthony Dougherty and Campaign Chairman Thomas Quinn, one of Brown's most trusted and able aides. "Jerry began to believe he was the founder of a new movement, a messiah of sorts," says one former staffer. "He sat around with these people all hours of the night talking about his role as the only person who could prevent nuclear war. He seemed to lose sight of the fact that a successful political operation calls for organization and money." Says former...