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...Ardito is deplored, detested, vilified. But he is also adored: even anticlerical partisans call him "the saint." The flaw in his character is that he is so intent upon his crusade that he cannot pause to deal with individual problems. Even as he climbs to fame as a preacher, he shrinks as a human being; he cannot give simple love to those who need it from...
Back at Princeton Seminary last week, the veteran preacher gave a quiet sermon to 331 of his fellow ministers assembled for the seminary's summer Institute of Theology. His subject: "The Four Winds and the Voice of God."* To an audience of professionals, his rolling periods, the long Biblical analogies, the references to the writings of the Founding Fathers were in themselves an epitome of a great but vanishing style of church preaching. His message might stand as the valedictory of a man to whom theological controversy has never been so important as the saving of souls...
...after a half-hour prelude of organ music. Elder Davidson opens with a story for the children, then runs off a 30-minute religious movie, or a "family problem" movie with such titles as Love Thy Neighbor and Honor Thy Family. After a brief prayer, Davidson (or a guest preacher) begins the half-hour illustrated sermon. Since May, both drive-ins have been drawing steady crowds. (Top attendance so far, for a visiting minister: 2,000.) Says Adventist Rustad: "We live in a new age, and the churches should keep moving with the times...
Right Side Up. Some 1,200 students, whom Bob Sr. fondly calls his "Preacher Boys," are studying for the ministry. On school weekends and during the summers, they pour off the campus to bring converts to the sawdust aisle. At churches where they assist, they often make pastors uneasy with their fervent preaching...
Last week the Preacher Boys were heading off campus again for their summer missions. Each man must preach one sermon a week; every day he must find a new spiritual "contact," ask him how he stands with Christ...