Word: preached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Assistant Secretary of War, personal attorney of Charles A. Lindbergh, added: "There are those among us who, posing as American patriots, are the veritable intellectual and spiritual agents of the Nazi philosophy and policy. They should be discerned for what they are and spurned for what they preach...
...retreat of the Cowley Fathers, black-robed brothers of the Order of St. John the Evangelist, who have come to seek heavenly peace on the fringe of the State's No. 2 industrial city. It is from here that the fathers set out on their nation-wide pilgrimages to preach the Episcopalian gospel; it is here that a good many world-weary sinners--ex-convicts, professors, journalists--have spent a quiet week of spiritual refreshment...
...Harlem big shot who runs a barbecue near Lenox Avenue called Aunt Dinah's Kitchen, and operates on the side a theatrical booking office for Negro talent. As Bossman Huey explained the setup: "Over on the right here we got the sheep. . . . They sing hymns, and they preach sermons and they is taken up with the spiritual side of life. Then over on the left here is the goats. . . . Among them I see gamblers, a couple of cake-eaters, some jitterbugs and some rug cutters...
...according to the Gallup poll-in the race for the Republican nomination. And before him, besides the Western ranges, lay a series of talks in Helena, Spokane, Portland, Salt Lake, Boise, 20-odd weeks before the Republican convention would meet in Philadelphia (see p. 17), and a chance to preach the doctrine of future growth in the least stagnant section of the country...
...Pius XII delivered, on the same day, to all the parish priests of Rome-whose bishop he is. Speaking of "our times, in which religious ignorance is profound and full of peril," the Holy Father told his priests to bestir themselves, pay less attention to administrative duties, more to preaching. Said he: "Preach with simplicity, aiming at that practical sense which comes to the mind and guides the spirit. It is not scintillating and learned fluency that conquers souls, especially today, but rather the word of conviction that comes from the heart and goes to the heart...