Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More than 2,500 Russians jammed Moscow's single Baptist church to hear them preach, and rose to chorus "Welcome!" in Russian as each was introduced. The clergymen tramped through Moscow in bitter cold to visit the city's historic spots. They were even invited to Tallin, the capital of Estonia, which has been barred to foreigners since World War II. On a trip to the 14th century Trinity Monastery at Zagorsk, the Americans were startled by their hosts' propaganda measures: throughout the 45-mile drive, an open ZIS limousine sped along before their motorcade crammed with...
Anent Mr. David P. Leas' letter [about the five missionaries killed by the Auca Indians in Ecuador-Feb. 13]: "Why go into Auca territory?" I answer in the words my husband wrote in his last letter to his parents: "Ours is to preach the gospel to every creature . . ." Mr. Leas is sure that the Lord must be interested in the Aucas "just as they are." God is interested in all mankind just as he is-so interested, in fact, that He sent His Son to die for him. The only trouble is that the Auca doesn't know...
ROTC's basic texts are field manuals, little brown books that preach the gospel on every aspect of military life. Original thinking is the private privilege of the higher-ups, who have made a science out of war and know enough about soldiering to revise the basic methods. For those who are only cadets, there is but one path: acceptance of the Army's mehods...
...great leaders sit idly by and preach a gospel of gradualism while the South is torn by violence," Howard said. It was the federal government's refusal to enforce desegregation that allowed violence to start at the University of Alabama, he asserted, "and unless prompt action is taken, such violence will spread...
...every new recruit to the ministry today there will have to be four in the near future. U.S. Protestants will also have to develop a new kind of pastor, geared to a greater proportion of older citizens and working wives. But this should not mean a tamer type of preaching, he warned: "It worries me that so many of our younger ministers feel that they must preach in a quiet and solemn voice with never a gesture, never a smile, never a change in cadence. It would be a relief if they would hit the pulpit just once...