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...days. It had been Rhee, one of Woodrow Wilson's favorite students at Princeton, who persuaded Chough's father to send the 16-year-old boy to study in the U.S. Taking a Ph.D. at Columbia, Chough returned to Korea to teach economics and to preach anti-Japanese nationalism. The Japanese jailed him for five years...
...digging the grave, and it is hard work. More than that, his secret resentments against the old man rise to the level of passion. For the old man was a windy man of God, a self-proclaimed "prophet" who raised the boy to go into the world to preach the Word. He especially charged him to baptize his city cousin, an idiot child whose schoolteacher father is a sweaty atheist. At the thought of this mission, young Tarwater is torn. An inner voice tells him that the old man was a fool or worse. He gets drunk, sets fire...
...opportunity to prove his class with major structures (see color pages). He has long been one of the most articulate spokesmen for the younger generation ("Modern architecture's range of expression is today from A to B"), but he has proved he can practice as well as preach...
...concern for so many mouths to feed. Early in 1956, Peking turned on a birth control campaign that plugged everything from up-to-date devices to the favorite oral contraceptive of Chinese herbalists: live tadpoles. But in 1958, Red China's bosses quietly dropped birth control, now preach the gospel according to Karl Marx: an increase in population is always an increase in capital...
...young pastors against trying to "major" in both church and civic affairs-one must "major in one and minor in the other, and there is no question as to which must be the major field of operation." Bishop Love also urged them not to be too popular. "You may preach a spineless, conforming-to-things-as-they-are sort of Gospel that may not cost you anything. If you do, you may please the people and have a comfortable existence, but you will not have peace of mind...