Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...building decked inside with maps of Palestine; some day they hoped to add a second story for a real church. To mark the establishment of the training center, Locy felt something special was indicated. His thoughts flew back to his old dean, Dr. A. F. Flutterer. Flutterer had once preached for 24 hours straight; Locy would preach 48. His subject: every book in the Bible, plus the Atomic...
...sense of responsibility, farmers recognized the dangers of piling up ever larger surpluses, private lenders made ample supplies of credit available on liberal terms, states and localities carried out large construction programs, and export demand remained strong." To keep things that way in the future, Ike continued to preach optimism, pointing anew at the presence of prosperity's ingredients-population growth, business initiative, technological advance, etc. "The vigor of the recent recovery," he said, "suggests that economic expansion will probably continue during coming months." Study of History. But the economy requires constant watching, and the President cautiously pointed...
...dams and power projects, whispering to the peasants: "Electricity is being taken out of the water to give to the landlords." They disguise themselves as astrologers to predict that "by the stars, there will be a Communist India." The Communists even pose as holy men, rubbed with ashes, to preach that "the gods want Andhra to be India's first Com munist state." The Communist tactics are many-sided, but their theme is consistent and throbbing: "Five acres per peasant . . . We will give you land!" From Gandhi to Dandies. Less than three weeks before the Andhra election...
...with you," they promised. "We have never had a priest as wonderful as you." A delegation from the villages went to Cardinal Saliège. Dubois pledged himself to preach the dogma he had already denied, because he said he found "nothing opposed" to it in the Bible. Cardinal Saliège did not change his mind. Henri Dubois took off his cassock, donned slacks and blue corduroy coat, and joined the French Reformed Protestant Church in Toulouse...
...first, some people at home and abroad thought that he was only going to preach. They soon discovered that this mission ary did a lot of practicing. He not only carried the word into the jungle, quieted the local tribes and performed marriages, but also helped to clear the ground, dam the streams and stop epidemics of fear...