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...present, sparsely populated counties, with 12% of the people, mostly in the north, elect 20 of the 38 ,state senators. Collins was criticized for not "forcing" the legislators to go along by using his patronage power and his right to veto bills for local improvements. Instead, he continues to preach reapportionment as a necessity of tomorrow's Florida. Says Collins: "It takes a gradual shaping of public opinion to win the really big fights." Although he has not publicly said so. he would like another term. The state Supreme Court will have to rule on his eligibility to succeed...
When he was five the family moved to his father's second pastorate in the little (pop. 6,635) town of McMinnville, Ore. One Sunday there, Ted sat in church listening to an evangelist his father had invited to preach. "He finished, and he asked for true believers to come forward," says Adams. "Without even knowing I was doing it, I stood up and I saw my father standing there waiting. It was only three or four steps up there, but even as a six-year-old I thought to myself that they were terribly important steps...
...careful not to push the burdened Baptist conscience too hard. "I am perfectly aware that there are complex and emotion-packed problems which must be solved as the races are integrated. My responsibility is not to dispute the fact that there are such problems. My responsibility is to preach the kind of Gospel that will bring people to a solution...
...dinned into him that he is, a would-be rapist and killer. According to Author Baldwin, the Negro's pent-up hostility shows up in far stranger places, e.g., the rock-'n'-roll sects of the Harlem storefront churches where his late father used to preach. Says Baldwin: "Religion operates here as a complete and exquisite fantasy revenge: white people own the earth and commit all manner of abomination and injustice on it; the bad will be punished and the good rewarded, for God is not sleeping, the judgment is not far off ... Bitterness is here neither...
...which we have virtuously tried to have toward the dull. Perhaps it is needed that we be slow to label [as] "revolutionaires," or liberals in any unfavorable sense, those who have many ideas, including occasional disturbing ideas, instead of a mere comfortable few. Perhaps it were well if we preached as often on intellectual sloth as we tend to preach on intellectual pride...