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...advised that Bishop Oxnam of Methodists does not speak for Evangelical Christianity. Our first effort is not to alleviate anti-Semitism or to hinder racial discrimination, as is the good bishop's, but to preach the gospel of salvation through the shed blood of Christ-the message of John Wesley which many Methodists and others seem to have forgotten. John Wesley preached "Ye must be born again" (John...
...president of the Federal Reserve Bank (since 1946), he has found time to double in brass as secretary (and traveling salesman) for the New England Council. He likes to preach the greatness of New England industry, and pooh-poohs statistics (which sometimes tell a different tale). At the dingy, church-quiet Federal Reserve Bank he woke things up by providing piped-in music...
...dressed herself in rags and masqueraded as a Piccadilly Circus flower girl, or sold matches, to learn the needs and ways of the poor she was dedicated to help. To campaign against liquor, she bought a guitar and charmed boozers out of pubs with her singing. She began to preach in the vivid, staccato style that later packed the biggest auditoriums...
...Sunday morning the Deweys attended services at interdenominational Christ Church, located in an old Victorian meeting hall. They heard the Rev. Dr. Ralph C. Lankier, a Presbyterian, preach: "We do not have the right to be smug. We cannot cure evil by ourselves, but we can by ... working with...
...Newton, a fundamentalist in his religion but a wide-eyed Russophile in his politics. The convention picked a home-town boy for the job: Dr. Robert Greene Lee, 61, of Memphis' Bellevue Baptist Church, the largest white Baptist congregation east of the Mississippi. He is famed for his preaching-especially for his spellbinding sermon, "Pay Day Some Day," on King Ahab and his wicked wife Jezebel. Last week in Memphis, 8,000 Southern Baptists heard their new president preach it again-for the 316th time...