Word: preaches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...above his wailing audience in the little Mount Olive (African Methodist Episcopal) Zion Church at Waterbury, Conn., last week. He rose to his toes and menaced the moaning Negroes with all the horrors of hell. Hysterical cries burst from the listeners: "That's right, preacher! Go on and preach, man! Amen, amen...
...Methodists; Dr. Cadman is a Congregationalist, a radio-preacher, a columnist on the New York Herald Tribune, and pastor of the Central Congregational Church in Brooklyn. Before the convention opened he spoke briefly in Manhattan to the effect that he did not plan to accept $25,000 yearly to preach over the radio and to the effect that too many Protestant dollars are used to build hideous churches...
...Indian Buddhist missionaries who went to preach their doctrine in foreign lands could not always overcome the love of their converts for certain native, non-Indian, divinities. The new members of the Buddhist community could not forget some of the gods worshipped by their ancestors for many generations, and means had to be found to reconcile the new faith with such deep-rooted sympathies...
Naturally War Minister Feng could not resist the temptation to preach his favorite principles, last week, to the new Nationalist Government and to President and Mrs. Chiang Kaishek. Whether the President will hereafter go marketing every day in his armoured Packard car remained to be seen. But the whole Government paid strictest attention as Marshal Feng developed the thesis of Spartan endeavor against a common enemy-JAPAN...
...William Belden Noble lectures for the year 1928-29 will be delivered by the Reverend George Alexander Johnston Ross, Professor of Homiletics in Union Theological Seminary, New York City. The general title of the series is "Why Preach Christ...