Word: preach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political parson is Dr. Hart. "I promise to take an interest in the civic affairs of Boston," he told Trinity when he went there, "but not to preach about them." Politics, economics and the war find small place in his sermons. Says he: "There is so little time to bring the comfort and guidance of religion into the daily lives of my congregation . . . [it] cannot be done if one's theme is political...
...Burma's Oil The Japanese threw fresh thousands upon already outnumbering thousands into the Burma front. Even the Chinese, who preach and practice an end to brave retreats, had to fall back. So did the British to the west of them...
Having so few clergy to back him, Quisling issued a decree authorizing laymen to preach in the churches. He could not round up lay preachers...
...when Old McDonald, then 18, was out plowing, he "received the call . . . to go out and preach the gospel of Jesus Christ." He had no trouble becoming a preacher, but he didn't know anything. So he worked his way through school (meanwhile marrying and begetting two sons) and graduated, age 29; with highest honors. His wife graduated in the same class. Then Old McDonald set out to convert Oklahoma because "Oklahoma was bound for hell as straight and as fast as an Indian could shoot an arrow." The McDonalds settled in Sallisaw, on the edge of the outlaw...
Bluntly and blatantly they push their virulent propaganda under the very noses of the defense workers are farm laborers. They preach defeatism, racial hatred, and Anglophobism. Some even urge that we stop fighting right away and let the Axis keep what it has won. Others attempt to whitewash Axis aggressions in China and Europe by arguing that Anglo-American Jewish imperialism made them necessary...