Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believes that beady-eyed subversives sneak into the library, read the New World Review, and preach its message to wide-eyed children. One gets the impression, in fact, that Massachusetts citizens are unwittingly paying for Kremlin communiques...
...people of Washington, D.C. when I read that a Malayan, S. Thava Rajah, had to spend 90 days as a guest of our Government to show us that we only preach democracy. Racial discrimination, whether North or South, is the blackest spot on our nation's record of freedom for all men. If the national capital cannot set a better example, let's move the seat (and head) of our Government back to Philadelphia, "the city of brotherly love...
This week, after 14 months of evangelizing through the U.S. and Canada, the Brunks are preaching the word in Goshen, Ind., to crowds of nearly 3,000 a night. At their previous stop, Waterloo, Ont., attendance was even larger: 105,000 during four weeks of steady preaching (including 1,500 who made formal "decisions for Christ"). Local Canadian pastors were so pleased with the results that some canceled their own services to let their congregations hear the Brunks preach...
Finances were no problem. As George Brunk explained, "There are plenty of moneymen everywhere we've been who want to see our work go on." Preaching seven times a week, they give their audiences a combination of good hymn singing and long, satisfying sermons ("We do not preach sermonettes"). Said Preacher George, "We preach a fundamental brand of religion, but we aren't fundamentalists. We aren't modernists, either. You don't have to be one or the other...
...Will Be Taken ... At their last big service in Waterloo, Lawrence, as usual, led the congregation in a series of old-time hymns, interspersed with short, humorous monologues. After the tent was filled, George got up to preach, wearing no tie and a suit with no lapels (in accord with old Mennonite custom). By the time he wound up his hour-long sermon, the audience had caught his enthusiasm...