Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Texas and Arizona-just as their forebears did in decades past. The cow country's first campfire meeting was organized back in 1890 by the Rev. W. B. Bloys, Stated Clerk of the El Paso Presbytery, who rode out to a campsite in the Davis Mountains to preach for three days to a handful of cowpokes and ranch families. Onetime Texas Cattle Dealer Joe Evans, now 80, remembers hearing Bloys preach. Evans, a Baptist layman, worked with the forerunner of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. in setting up a regular circuit of campfire meetings...
...unions within unions" are not uncommon. They already exist among staff members of at least nine U.S. unions, including the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and the International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers. Says the Electrical Workers' President James Carey: "As an employer, I believe in practicing what I preach...
Prism & Wonderland. One of five curates at St. Stephen's, Priest-Publisher Beaumont-thanks to an "understanding" vicar-has no duties except on Sunday, a privilege shared by some Anglican "worker priests" in British industrial cities who labor weekdays in factories, preach and worship on Sunday in mission chapels. Beaumont is currently in the midst of tidying up his communications interests. For "a nominal sum," he recently sold the weekly magazine Time & Tide, which he saved from extinction in 1960 and turned into one of England's liveliest but most unprofitable journals of opinion (he lost...
...says. "We need a revision of the Prayer Book. We need to purge the Gospels of out-of-date accretions and produce an act of worship in modern idiom. The church spends its funds wrongly too. Church money should be used to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and preach the Gospel...
...Following the rules by which these games are played, it was possible to learn what the Chinese meant by substituting Khrushchev's name wherever Kautsky's was mentioned. "Kautsky robs Marxism of its revolutionary, living spirit," charged the Chinese. "He is a hidden opportunist. He does not preach revolution, does not carry on the wholehearted revolutionary struggle, and in order to avoid such a struggle resorts to the tritest, ultra-Marxist-sounding excuses." On a less rarefied plane, the widening split between China and Russia is also much in evidence. Diplomatically, Russia is actively engaged in containing China...