Word: preaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fuses the impatience of revolutionists with the scruples of idealists." Fischer admires Gandhi as uncritically as he once admired Stalin. Like the Mahatma, he "wants to improve the system by improving man." Yet it was Gandhi himself who (a year ago) brushed aside Fischer's suggestion that Gandhi preach his doctrine to the West: "How can I preach nonviolence to the West, when I have not even convinced India? I am a spent bullet...
...with stern modesty: "I hope to give my abilities, such as they are, to the church of which I am a member." Correspondents knew that General Lee, an Episcopalian, kept a Bible on his desk and another in his briefcase, was an ardent churchgoer, had been known to preach a sermon on several occasions. They remembered that he called on Pope Pius XII several times, presumably to discuss means of smoothing Protestant-Catholic relations...
...bought a few herself, and for 21 years a Bond Street gallery exhibited the rest. Shipped to the U.S., the paintings were valued at $1,000,000 and viewed by over a million people in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia. Many wept over them; several clergymen felt inspired to preach on-the-spot sermons...
...Born in Lisbon in 1647, De Britto became a Jesuit at 15. In 1673 he traveled to India to preach Christianity. He converted a Maravese prince and then demanded that the prince dismiss all of his wives but one. Among the wives was a niece of the King of Marava; she objected so effectively that De Britto was beheaded...
...glasses that do not quite hide the fire in his eyes. Even in his youth, he never lacked for words. Like his father, he became a minister of the Disciples of Christ, a denomination originally formed by Presbyterians who wanted less sectarianism and more church unity. Once in his preaching career Dr. Morrison, in the pulpit of a church he was visiting, discovered a clock with a warning sign: "Preach not over 30 minutes." Dr. Morrison preached right on past the deadline...