Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bloody City. Fox taught that the Inner Light of God's grace was in every man, there for the seeking. He felt himself called by God, with power to preach and to heal, "to bring people off from all the world's religions, which are vain, that they might know the pure religion, and might visit the fatherless, the widows and the strangers, and keep themselves from the spots of the world."-He and his followers saw themselves as latter-day Prophets, trying to bring their people back to the live faith and concrete charitable sacrifice of primitive...
Odokara had come to the U.S. in spite of warnings from his father, 97-year-old ceremonial leader of the idol-worshiping Omenani religion. "Christians," scoffed the father, "don't practice what they preach...
Daniel Williams in 1716 left 60 pounds to be divided between two persons "to preach as itinerants in the English plantations, in the west Indies and for the good of what pagans and blacks be neglected there...and the remainder to the College of Cambridge, New England to manage the blessed work of converting the poor Indians there...
...They get pretty sloppy at times, so I preach and rear at them a little." Once after she had "read them the riot act," Queenie walked in to find herself hung in effigy from the stairwell, with brooms and sheets representing clothes and feet...
...passive resisters," black, half-white and brown, have been jailed for defying Jim Crow laws. Desperately, James Njongwe pleaded for both sides to "get together round a table to find a peaceful solution." It is late for that, and the will seems to be lacking. Communist agitators now preach racial class war in the teeming black locations, and their influence is growing in direct proportion to the harshness of Malan's persecutions. Fortnight ago, Brian Bunting, a white Communist, got 80% of the votes in a Negro election in Western Cape Province...