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...usual Sunday night service in an unprepossessing church in Riverside, Calif. But dozens of worshipers in the Faith Tabernacle Church were struck to the floor, trembling in mystical ecstasy, after a visitation from what they believed was the Holy Spirit. Shouted their pastor, the Rev. Pat Yarbrough: "The Spirit of God is moving like the breeze!" One congregant, interviewed later at his job, said simply: "I got zapped." The most moving testimony was the choked-up avowal of the church organist, a pretty young woman named Judy, who said about Jesus: "It's a pity that such...
...violated? But Police Sergeant John Mordas, 36, awakened in his home across the street, felt differently. He was so annoyed by the intrusion of the sound of a very fine carillon on his rest that he promptly wrote up a citation and mailed it to the church's pastor, Herman J. Ridder. The charge: noise pollution. A city ordinance passed last March declares that "any noise of any kind" constitutes a "general nuisance." The fact that there happened to be majesty to this particular noise was not a mitigating factor...
Requested by the city attorney to come to some accommodation with Mordas-or risk court action-the pastor lowered the volume and agreed to change the direction of the speakers in order to disperse the sound. It could not be said that the church lacked proper regard for the rights of its neighbors. More widely adopted, however, the city's ordinance could make for a rather cheerless Christmas. Ridder has agreed that the bells will chime only five to eight minutes instead of the 18-minute Thanksgiving toll. "We don't want to be a nuisance," he says...
Under Cousins, committee chairmen included the president of one of Atlanta's largest banks, the chairman of its rapid transit system, the president of its chamber of commerce, the country's number-one Ford dealer and several retired public servants. The chairman of the ministers' council was the pastor of the church where numerous Atlanta political and civic leaders do their praying...
...Pastor Cho estimates that as many as 1,000,000 out of the 4,000,000 Korean Christians have since received the "baptism in the Holy Spirit"-the inner, direct experience of the Holy Spirit's blessing that Pentecostalists regard as a necessary condition for a full spiritual life. Korea's growing Christian fervor is not only Pentecostalist, though...