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...Attended services at Washington's National Presbyterian Church, met and listened attentively to Guest Preacher Billy Graham (see RELIGION), who told the congregation: "The problem we're wrestling with today is not Communism, not the hydrogen bomb-it's human nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Town & Country Life | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

...questionnaire, drawn up with the approval of George A. Buttrick, University Preacher, Gordon W. Allport '19, professor of Psychology, and Dean Watson, will deal primarily with the effect of various college experiences on students' religious beliefs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Plans Poll On Student Religion | 3/12/1955 | See Source »

Clinton Locy was a cattle ranch foreman in Southern California when a Baptist preacher persuaded him to go to church. He heard one sermon and decided to be a preacher himself. Last week he gave a sermon that lasted 48 hours and 18 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Longest Sermon | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

Into the Night Wind. Ranch Foreman Locy first became Preacher Locy at the Holy Land Bible Knowledge Society in Los Angeles. Then he spent 30 years barnstorming the U.S. and Canada-the last 19 of them in a trailer-teaching the Bible with the help of pictures. When Clinton and his wife Georgia settled down a couple of years ago in West Richland, Wash. (pop. 1,000), they set about starting a Visual Bible Training Center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Longest Sermon | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

...Hungry." Three listeners stuck it out until 4 a.m., then left to go to work. At one point on Sunday morning, there were as many as 50. Sometimes there was only one, Carl Heminger. whose specialty is showing colored slides at church gatherings. Preacher Locy preached as he never preached before, sustaining himself with lemon juice and vegetables, refreshing himself with a wet towel around his head, relieving himself at the back of the building, and talking into the mike all the time. After 24 hours he got to the Book of Psalms, and Georgia brought him a plate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Longest Sermon | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

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