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...Administrator Paul G. Hoffman got a mash note from a first-grader back in South Bend (where his Studebaker plant stands). "My daddy is a preacher," said the letter, "and he said if we had more men like you he would not have to preach so hard. I love...
...Friends of a Fort Worth bookkeeper named George Stephens heard him preach his own funeral oration-from records he had prepared before his death. Stephens' voice was charged with emotion as it began, calm as it concluded: "There will be no burial service." His body was sent to a medical school for dissection...
Anglican Newman, a sensitive, handsome man gliding through Oxford's quadrangles in his long-tailed coat, became a powerful influence among the undergraduates. They packed the ancient church of St. Mary's to hear his sermons. "As he began to preach, his voice was faint but musical, its pitch rising, though always controlled, till 'the very tones . . . seemed as if they were something more than his own,' as if a power beyond him spoke through...
...priests assigned to preach Lenten sermons, the Pope declared that Italians who failed to vote in the coming elections (see FOREIGN NEWS) were sinners. "He who abstains . . ." he said, "especially for indolence or for cowardice, commits thereby a grave sin and mortal fault...
Ideas in Practice. But when Hitler began to realize this satanic Utopia, Juenger, an aristocratic esthete, balked. It was one thing to preach total discipline, another thing to experience it. For the first six years of the Nazi reign he wrote mostly of private and nonpolitical matters. A few days after the Nazi invasion of Poland he published On the Marble Cliffs, a strange allegorical novel, clearly anti-Nazi in intention. Even those who hated Juenger and all he had stood for had to admit that its publication was an act of courage...