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...want me to. That's what the Army's for. Majority rules, and if a majority tells me, 'Lieutenant, go and kill 1,000 enemies,' I'll go and kill 1,000 enemies. But I won't advocate it. I won't preach for it. I won't be a hypocrite about...
...grocery clerk named McPherson proposed. After a fairly short spell of McPherson, she fell deathly ill and suffered a vision in which the Lord summoned her from the dishpan to the pulpit. So she dumped her daughter and small son on the farm in Ontario and ran away to preach. In 1918, preaching took her to Los Angeles, and Los Angeles quickly took her to its stucco heart...
...testimony of policemen at a Senate hearing yesterday. "The groups we are dealing with today are not innocent, misinformed students," Sheriff Michael A, Amico of Erie County, New York, told the panel. "They know precisely what they are doing. Their ultimate goal is not reform, but revolution. They preach peace but practice violence on an ever-increasing level...
They seek him here, they seek him there, but Jesuit Priest Daniel J. Berrigan, 49, has become a sort of Scarlet Pimpernel of the antiwar underground. Last week he popped up-uninvited but welcomed-at the First United Methodist Church of Germantown, Pa., to preach peace. The renegade reverend, who last April was supposed to start a 3½-year sentence for destroying draft records, urged the churchgoers to "refuse to pay taxes, and to aid and abet and harbor people like myself so that a solid wall of conscience confronts the warmakers." Before federal agents got wind...
Jesus freaks. Evangelical hippies. Or, as many prefer to be called, street Christians. Under different names-and in rapidly increasing numbers-they are the latest incarnation of that oldest of Christian phenomena: footloose, passionate bearers of the Word, preaching the kingdom of heaven among the dispossessed of the earth. Their credentials are ancient, for they claim to be emulating Christ and his Disciples. They often build their lives on the Book of Acts, living in common like the early Christians. They abjure drugs, proscribe sex outside marriage, pray and preach incessantly among drifters, addicts and homosexuals and even, occasionally...