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...efficacy of principle is brought into question by many less amicable than the old Scottish preacher whose practice was to extricate himself from treacherous discussion with his parishioners with the statement: "It may not be right, and it may not be just, but it is the will of God." If only the will of God could be so certainly known...
...John Bertram Phillips of Dorsetshire has a rare and felicitous talent: he can make St. Paul sound as contemporary as the preacher down the street. Seeking to "transmit freshness and life across the centuries," Phillips produced a New Testament in Modern English that abandoned archaisms in favor of unadorned clarity and read more like Lord Jim than King James...
Hans Scherner Jr. '64, chairman of a joint committee sponsoring three speeches in Rindge Tech Auditorium Feb. 18 through 20, said yesterday that Graham is not expected to present a regular "crusade." An "evangelism team" will not accompany the preacher...
...United Ministry cannot by its very nature officially cooperate," said its head, the Rev. Richard Mumma. The Rev. Charles Price, Preacher to the University, said that neither would he take an official role. "But I have indicated my complete agreement with the invitation," he added...
Died. Lyman Beecher Stowe, 82, grandson of Novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin), grandnephew of Abolitionist Preacher Henry Ward Beecher, author of the lively 1934 account of the crusades and peccadilloes of his forebears, Saints, Sinners and Beechers; of pneumonia; in Fairfield, Conn...