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...last week he had organized a team of 17 boys (twelve of them ex-G.I.s) and 13 girls who conduct Sunday services, organize community activities, visit the sick and preach sermons among Warren County's undermanned Methodist churches. He had taught them how to baptize, given them pastoral pointers...
...year-old Jean LeGrand, a dark-eyed, pale, intense man from the south of France. His theory: nothing is valid except sense experience, in which sex experience, being the most intense, is the most valid. Even the Sensorialists, however, claim that sex should have emotional justification, and therefore they preach "multiple love" instead of "free love." They claim that jealousy and possessiveness are sins; that marriage is enslavement; that fidelity is a mistake but constancy a good thing. The great idol of the Sensorialists is that 18th Century pervert and jailbird, the Marquis de Sade. Leader LeGrand is writing five...
...this surcharged situation a fervent voice suddenly spoke out. For most of his life Elias Hicks, a Long Island farmer, had been a respected though not particularly distinguished Quaker minister.* But in 1815, at the age of 67, he was moved to preach against the evangelistic doctrines which he felt were threatening Quaker mysticism.† At the Yearly Meeting of 1827, differences were too deep even for Friendly reconciliation: country Quakers withdrew to form a separate meeting. Though they never formally accepted the teachings or leadership of Elias Hicks, the seceders were known as "Hicksites" for want of a better...
...when all Israel had repented and turned again to strict Judaism, then according to the prophecy in Zachariah, which he plainly conceived himself to be fulfilling', the Gentiles too would be proselytized and flock to Jerusalem to worship. Yes, certainly, the disciples went into all the world to preach the Gospel: but to their fellow Jews, scattered in every country from Portugal to India: for Jesus had roundly condemned the practice of actively proselytizing the Gentiles. instead of concentrating on the Israelite mission field...
...more able to work with all nations. He would be accepted more readily in former Axis countries. He might work better with Russia, should the Kremlin ever admit Roman Catholic missionaries. Despite the Russian hostility to Rome, Jesuits are training and planning for the day when they can preach behind the iron curtain...