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...Democratic Senator Samuel Ervin, another member of the censure committee, arose to speak. He recalled that McCarthy had accused him of bias and, as usual, had quoted out of context from newspaper clippings to prove the charge. This habit of Joe's reminded Ervin of the North Carolina preacher who about 75 years ago deplored the local women's custom of wearing their hair in topknots. One Sunday he preached a sermon on the text: "Top (K)Not Come Down." At the end an irate woman-with a topknot-protested that no such text could be found...
...national institution 80 years ago, widely acclaimed as the greatest preacher "since Paul preached on the Hill of Mars." Member of a famous evangelical family (Harriet Beecher Stowe, who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, was his sister), he had packed in the parishioners at Brooklyn's big Plymouth Church for 23 years. Then, at 57, and at the peak of his influence, he was accused of practicing what he preached against. "On the night of July 3, 1870,'' writes Author Robert Shaplen. "Elizabeth Richards Tilton, a small, dark-haired woman of 35, the mother of four...
Shocking Medium. The confession was the outcome of a weird triangle. Tilton had long worshiped Preacher Beecher as "my man among men." Beecher, who had married the Tiltons back in 1855, visited their home constantly, hinting freely at his own marital unhappiness. Tilton would say: "There is one little woman down at my house that loves you more than you have any idea...
...veteran named Colonel Blood, and yelp: "There stands my lover, but when I cease to love him, I shall leave him." When The Woodhull was attacked for living a libertine life, she coldly countered by charging in print, naming all names, that the country's No. 1 preacher was a bigger libertine than she and a hypocrite to boot...
...Billion Headaches. The tireless preaching of this message has won Dr. Peale one of the largest followings of any American preacher. He reaches an estimated 30 million people a week. His TV program, What's Your Trouble?, is heard over nearly as many stations (130) as Bishop Fulton Sheen's. His radio program, The Art of Living, with its 125 stations, does better than John Cameron Swayze's. His celebrity-studded monthly magazine, Guidepost, has a circulation of 656,000, or more than The New Yorker. And his nationally syndicated column, Confident Living, runs in more papers...