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...florid-faced six-footer with crew-cut silver hair and bushy eyebrows, Riou rises with the predawn peal of his chapel bells, works a 17-hour day. He finds time to preach an hour-long sermon in Creole each Sunday. "Here all goes well," he wrote a friend recently. "Patients, as usual, are numerous." To Haitians, Father Riou is a "bon blanc"-good white...
...sound financial front is the most important thing in a newspaper," he said last week. "Why else would you be in the news business? Either it's because you're mad at somebody, or the way things are being handled. Or else you want to preach. The only other reason is that it's business. I like the business...
...jostling crowds on London's Holborn Viaduct last Sunday might have been on their way to a soccer game, but they were actually going to hear a new minister preach at London's most popular church. At a time when most British churches are all but empty, City Temple, the "Cathedral of Nonconformism," often has overflow crowds. Said one temple official last week: "In nearby St. Paul's Cathedral, which holds 3,000, there are seldom more than 30 people at Evensong. If we have less than 1,500, we wonder what is the matter...
What the church needs, Griffith announced in his first sermon, is a "return to orthodoxy." And what he intends to preach is "sin and redemption . . . historic gospel, timeless, Bible-centered messages which the church and only the church is capable of speaking...
...came time for him to invite his listeners down, there was no doubt about his effectiveness. "I like religion" said senora Gloria de Rodriguez, 34. "I saw Billy Graham on television, and I decided I wanted to come and see him in person, I prefer the way he preaches to he way the Catholic priests preach" Like her there were plenty of nominal Catholics in he Garden. "The priest never said we shouldn't come," said 1 5-year-old HiIda Cintrón "and my father said we should...