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Backsliding students were not so bothersome as President Henry Dunster, who objected violently to traditional methods of baptism. But Dunster had to reckon with the Rev. Jonathan Mitchell, known to all as "matchless Mitchell a mighty man in prayer." The debate ended with President Dunster penitent, but out of office...
"Do Your Duty." But next day, Sir Winston appeared in Commons in a much different mood. Laborite Emanuel Shinwell apologized for bringing up unpleasant subjects so soon ("Quite right. Do your duty," said Churchill), but Shinwell wanted details of the telegram Churchill had declared he sent to Field Marshal Montgomery...
The U.S. might well remember a Thanksgiving Day sermon Dr. Coffin preached ten years ago. Americans, he said, were always "self-reliant, not to say cocky," but only "penitent, pardoned and therefore truly humble Americans" would do any good in the world. It was a favorite theme of his: "Selfsufficiency...
He has preached on the steps of the Capitol in Washington and in the shadow of the Iron Curtain, on Korean battlefields and in Hitler's former stadium in Berlin. In England, where religion has long been in decline, 2.000,000 people last spring came in penitent droves, and...
The Leaves & the Roots. The following Sunday, from the 400-odd pulpits of the archdiocese of Seville, a pastoral letter was read, denouncing this "imprudent priest" and forbidding parishioners to listen to Father Marcos or discuss his broadcasts. Then Cardinal Segura instructed all his priests to deny absolution to any...