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times in a monotonic chant, spoke against people with long hair and mod clothes. In the past this same man has preached against the VISTA project. He then told the story of the Dutch boy who put his finger in the dike; the preacher said that the United States was about to burst wide open and that everyone should put his finger in the dike. Wild. Then, speaking figuratively, he said that God would make us drive our new cars straight and on the right side of the road...
...second one. After the second one, a man sat at a table right up front and counted the money, gave people change, and finally reported the amount collected. All the while-this process took at least as long as the sermon-the choir hummed hymns and the preacher read form the Bible. After the money was counted, a man got up and said you had to give money to have God come into your hear. I think the comment was directed...
They have a new church building. Money goes to pay that preacher even when many of the church members do not have enough to eat. Black ministers around here are usually quite well-off, in marked contrast to those who contribute each Sunday toward paying their salaries. The church in this county is holding the people back. It is basically a conservative political force. Pray instead of getting out and working in the elections. The church here is an opiate...
...vest and William Brewster a violet coat. The traditional dour grays and blacks were principally for Sundays. Their observance of the gloomy Sunday, however, was a practice not without its perils. Since the Pilgrims believed that a baby born on a Sunday had been conceived on a Sunday, preachers thundered when a woman gave birth on a Sunday. One preacher stopped such harangues after his own wife gave birth to twins during the Sunday afternoon period he regularly reserved for prayer and meditation...
...also her lot to face the chants and placards of protesters, the direct abuse of the odd preacher or entertainer and, more than any of her predecessors, to do it all in the eye of the TV camera and the press...