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...bread and wine, bailing his flock out of jail, counseling pregnant girls, speaking to church groups, being pointed out to tourists (the mission is a regular stop for sightseeing buses). He never brings up the subject of religion. "If they ask, I reply. And, believe me, many people preach to me, and I've been transformed. Church people often ask me: 'Have things been successful? How many have become Christians? Is this worth the investment?' When I first came here, I was anxious to see practical results. Now I've learned that one must act according...
...evening service, the real voice of the congregation was still heard: parishioners wept again as they heard Bob McNeill preach a blistering farewell sermon. "We in the South can no longer speak in terms of democracy or justice without making a parenthetical exception for an entire people. When we make this exception time after time in everything we do, we have lost the capacity to reason logically. I have grown to despise a particular word. That word is 'compromise.' Have you noticed how everybody is a moderate these days? Everybody is rushing toward the middle ground...
...think a Roman Catholic can be elected President. When the right man comes along -no matter what his religion-the American voters will vote for him. Let's not only preach democracy, but let's live it. Senator Kennedy is the right man; he will be our next President...
...spend full time on the complex school crisis. Result: clear understanding that the court had not ordered immediate mass integration, as many a Southerner feared, or left the states free to interpose their authority between the courts and specific schools, as Virginia's "massive resisters" began to preach. Hodges, himself a segregationist, pleaded with Negro leaders to maintain "voluntary separatism of the races." But, never first segregation before education, he pushed through laws (1955-56) which allowed local boards to accept Negro applicants, but gave local voters the ultimate "escape valve" choice of locking their schools rather than accept...
Biggest Selling Job. At 19 he was selected by his church to spend two years as a Mormon missionary, took off for Great Britain. He spent 18 months in Scotland preaching the Mormon gospel from door to door, then went to London to preach for six more months from a soapbox in Hyde Park and at Tower Hill. The competition from other soapboxers for listeners was so tough that Romney teamed up with a red-bearded Socialist to catch an audience. They agreed to heckle each other's meetings regularly, thus both drew crowds. Says Romney: "I suppose some...