Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Doran ($2.50). Rove Carruthers would rather dream great deeds than do them. Aged 16 and a man by Ozark standards, he loves Jubilee, hates go-getting, hardworking Abner Holly. But even Jubilee grows impatient with Rove when he neglects his new farm because he has heard the call to preach. The story of how Rove finally wins over Jubilee by driving Abner to the sinners' bench at pistol point is a slight but colorful description of Ozark manners, with humor and charm for the sympathetic reader...
After the great race, Dodds hardly heard the barrage of congratulations. "I must catch a train," he said, "I'm really excited - I'm to preach a sermon tomorrow at Goshen, Ind." Now, the man who prefers gospel teaching to mile records joins Torrey Johnson's Evangelistic group in Los Angeles - the town where another dashing character won lasting fame as an evangelist: the late, white-robed Aimee Semple McPherson...
...Founded 25 years ago by a Professor Dunov, who died in Sofia last week, the sect numbers some 700 men & women. Each summer the Dunovists climb Mount Musala, Bulgaria's highest mountain, in order to be nearer the sun. They also chant hymns to the sun every morning, preach human regeneration by living close to nature...
...months ago he escaped to Sweden. Last week came news that the Norwegian Government in London had restored him to the fight against the Nazis by appointing him Bishop of Liberated Norway. Now, on the tiny stretch of land freed by the Red Army, Bishop Fjellbu can preach as he wishes...
...think [Harold Ickes] is a very able man and a first-class Secretary of the Interior . . . but he is the type of man who always goes to extremes. . . . He cannot help it, and I forgive him. . . . I think I might preach a little sermon to the Senate on that subject. The Lord's Prayer, of which I would always speak reverently, contains the expression: 'Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against...