Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sundays ago in Seattle's solid old Pilgrim Congregational Church, Rev. Frederic William Shorter mounted his pulpit, looked squarely at his congregation of 400, said briskly: "Yes, I preach revolution. Next Sunday, if I am still pastor, I will preach on 'The Insanity of Jesus.' It always has been insanity to preach the brotherhood...
...Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, the Fundamentalists took their fight to the Presbyterian General Assembly. They were soundly trounced (TIME, June 5). Very well, said they. They would go home and found a missions board of their own, to get contributions from Fundamentalists and send out Fundamentalist missionaries to preach God's own Fundamentals to black, brown and yellow men in far corners of the earth. In Philadelphia last October they set up the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. And for its general secretary and most active worker they chose no grizzled Presbyterian die-hard but a keen...
...foot save when waters are to be crossed. Begging as they go, the Buddhists expect to take two years in reaching Rome. Their twelve leaders will be called "Lions" because they think they will need lion hearts in such troublous spots as Mecca and Jerusalem. They will preach vegetarianism. "Westerners," said Bhikkhu, "make graveyards of themselves on account of the innocent animals they kill...
...continued to bring slaves into his Plymouth Church. This congregation had been founded in 1846 by three men who broke away, from the nearby Church of the Pilgrims. Inducing Henry Ward Beecher to be their preacher, they soon heard people saying: ''If you want to hear him preach, take the ferry to Brooklyn and then follow the crowd." Preacher Beecher stayed with Plymouth Church for the remaining 40 years of his life...
...whole congregation over into decent folk. It took a lot to down him, but gradually he learned that Segget was there to stay. Then he had a vision and turned otherworldly. Chris liked him better in his old role. But when he got up from a sick bed to preach his last sermon she recognized him again. They were friends...