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John Wesley, the sturdy little founder of Methodism, who began "field preaching" in the open air to whatever plain folk would listen. He wrote in his Journal: "I look upon all the world as my parish...." By 1791 he had traveled some 250,000 miles, most of it on horseback over miserable roads, often braving angry mobs, to "preach the Gospel to the poor." Wesley's Journal, sixth of the writings selected by Professor McNeill, is a detailed and vivid record of the rough, violent, unequal world which was 18th Century England to all but the privileged...
...find I still preach best," Pastor Edmund Wylie once said, "when the congregation is against me." His son, Author Philip Wylie, felt much the same way. As a slick-paper fictioneer and essayist (Generation of Vipers'), he had profitably entertained large congregations, often as not by insulting them. But as a newspaper columnist he had emptied the church. Off My Chest was a vitriolic series of sermons against clericalism, bigotry, and the worship of "Mom." Last week, after three years as a syndicated columnist, Philip Wylie admitted defeat...
...inevitable happened. Chuck Luckman turned up in Hollywood to preach his save-food doctrine and witness the start of the "Friendship Train," a cross-country stunt to collect food donated for hungry Europe. Surrounded by the great and near-great of Hollywood, he watched the ceremonies center on a flag-painted collection of boxcars, loaded only with movie stars and searchlight generators. Then, after the famous names had gone home, the real train started out of Glendale station, hauling twelve carloads of wheat, flour, canned milk and a soybean by-product called Multi-Purpose Food...
This "theological confusion," concluded the committee soberly, is a serious handicap to Congregational evangelism. What, it asked, are preaching missions to preach, and in what faith are young people to be confirmed...
...fuses the impatience of revolutionists with the scruples of idealists." Fischer admires Gandhi as uncritically as he once admired Stalin. Like the Mahatma, he "wants to improve the system by improving man." Yet it was Gandhi himself who (a year ago) brushed aside Fischer's suggestion that Gandhi preach his doctrine to the West: "How can I preach nonviolence to the West, when I have not even convinced India? I am a spent bullet...