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Sullivan talks at length about the historical significance of the demolished building. Built in 1831 by famous New England architect Oliver Hastings, the house also had two famous residents. Harvard's Parkin Professor of Pulpit Eloquence Converse Francis lived there in the 1840's, and Boston publishing magnate John Allyn occupied the then-mansion in the 1880's. The Francis-Allyn House, characteristic of the Greek Revival architecture sweeping New England after the rediscovery of the Acropolis, featured an elaborate portico entrance in its heyday...
...Pulpit in Politics...
...faced in coming here, Billy Graham," said Piotr Konovalchik. "We rejoice that you are with us tonight." Many young women in the choir, clad in orange dresses and white headbands, wept along with him. As Graham quietly thanked Konovalchik, a clergyman who had come from Moscow strode to the pulpit to offer a prayer: "You shed your blood for Russia too, O Lord. We pray that a surge of revival may start in this house of ours...
...evangelist is meeting beleaguered Jewish leaders and speaking in Russian Orthodox cathedrals and churches that have rarely allowed Protestants in the pulpit. At Leningrad's Orthodox Academy, Graham offered advice to 1,000 seminarians and priests. Without directly citing Soviet restrictions, he said, "In some societies you cannot go out and preach the Gospel. What do you do?" His answer: "We must wear the fruit of the Spirit, so that people, when they see how we live, will be drawn to the Spirit within us." Christianity has survived atheist taunts, he said, "because the Gospel has its own power...
...badges of dishonor, so prison officials do not issue them any clothing. For 17 years, said the Rev. Humberto Noble Alexander, a Seventh-day Adventist who was jailed in 1962, many plantados "wore nothing but underwear we made ourselves from bed sheets." Noble's crime: sermonizing from his pulpit about Lucifer (a reference to Castro) seducing and deceiving the angels (the Cuban people). Once, anticipating a prison visit by foreign delegations, guards ordered prisoners to don new baseball uniforms and play a rare morning baseball game. But the visitors kept coming throughout the day. As a result, said Noble...