Word: preach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...missionaries are athletes. But the soldiers of Christ must have active bodies and many of those who preach His Word in China have introduced there the wholesome exercises practiced in the west-baseball, rugger, track. Last week in Hankow the picked volleyball experts of two rival mission schools went out to play...
...preach a doctrine of struggle toward the unattainable, to suggest a departure from the paths of indolence and case--that is to play the hypocrite. For in this case as in many others the precise caption is--"Aren't we all?" But one can regret that in this great number of graduates from these many American universities and colleges there will be so few who will strive, not as a moth for a star, because the moth never does see the star, but as vigorous, vital human beings toward the high hills of existence which neither a contented faculty...
When I was a youth in Charmington, Misereri, it was the pleasure of the local legitimates to preach sermons. In fact there was not a preacher in Charmington who did not preach, nor a minister who did not minister. But they were all Methodists and I was a Baptist. So I heard few of their sermons, received few of their ministrations. Yet this did not send me to hell. I remained in Charmington in our little gray house in the best part of town and real evil books which my mother had bought for me, books like Old Testament Stories...
...Poodle was holding service. There I was told she would sit for ten minutes by the watches of the crowd about the store when she would leave the perfervid Poodle as rapidly as she had come unto him. For the Reverend Poodle had but one subject on which to preach Sunday nights, and that was Pekinese Purgatory. And Cartrack being a pekinese resented his words even as he resented her existence. She believed devoutly in a purgatory, but she thought that there was as much room there for Poodles as for Cartracks. The rest of the congregation...
...chance visit to a revival meeting "caused something all of a sudden to happen inside her." After she had thus perceived the hollowness of mundane life and renounced it, her debut in her new role was dramatic. Suddenly appearing in a railway yard at lunch hour, she began to preach to the workers. One o'clock came but no whistle blew. Uldine's words had held all the workers enthralled. Out stalked an angry boss to discover what the trouble was, but he, too, felt Uldine's spell and stayed to listen. Thus did wisdom encounter and overcome the forces...