Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Buddhist monk may not preach until the congregation asks him to. He usually asks that they gain bunya by agreeing (for one day, not for life) to obey five commandments: 1) thou shalt not kill anything, not even the mosquito that bites you, 2) nor steal, 3) nor lie, 4) nor commit adultery, 5) nor take intoxicating drinks. Many Siamese strike a balance between bunya and bapa by agreeing to observe commandments 4 and 5 only on alternate days...
Then he cited sections from the state constitution and General Laws that he said require all college teachers to preach love of country and to watch out for other evil tendencies...
...started simply enough. "Preach, my dear sir, a crusade against ignorance," Thomas Jefferson had cried; but the crusade was to roll and swell beyond even Jefferson's wildest dreams. The nation passed through the age of the one-room district schoolhouse, of the birch rod and the rattan cane, the primer, Noah Webster's famous speller and the Me Guff ey readers. Ever since the indefatigable Horace Mann had stormed through Massachusetts preaching the cause of better schools ("In a Republic, Ignorance is a Crime!"), successive generations of young Americans had been learning the three Rs as Dart...
...week or ten days out of almost every month he is on a lecture tour. (In the past week he visited Fort Worth, Chicago, Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids and Cleveland.) During Lent, he will preach every day at least once, and sometimes twice...