Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist. Saga's conservative toshiyori (elders) lost no time in calling a town meeting to talk it over. Up stood prosperous Farmer Sakuji Takahashi with a ready-made solution. In the big city of Kyoto, said Sakuji, he had heard Msgr. Paul Furuya, a Japanese Roman Catholic priest, preach to some new converts. The monsignor's brand of religion, he argued, looked like just what Saga needed. The villagers agreed. Farmer Takahashi and ex-Mayor Hitoshi Kataoka were commissioned to invite the Catholics to town...
...preach the Christian doctrine of tolerance...
...thing, there were his sermons on taking the profit out of war. Says he: "One or two people always stomp angrily out of the church whenever I intimate that anybody ever made a profit out of war." He also preached against "the obsession with making money," and "sharp practices in business." Some of his critics thought it was the last straw when, in celebration of this year's "Brotherhood Week,"* Pastor Douds invited a Negro minister, the Rev. Edward Graham, to preach from his pulpit...
...this age of Hollywood blood-and-thunder war movies, all of which preach some sort of a hackneyed message, there is nothing more refreshing than to see a brilliant war film like the twelve year-old "Grand Illusion." Starring Erich von Stroheim and Jean Gabin, this old-French epic concerns the fate of a group of French prisoners in Germany during the first World...
...office. His father not only tolerates his assistant's political activities, but once referred to them as "the work which the rector himself would have done had he been 20 years younger." When such work included inviting England's celebrated "Red Dean" of Canterbury to preach at Holy Trinity, anti-Melish parishioners were not reassured...