Word: sermonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Conversion. The pious parents of William Franklin Graham Jr. planted his feet firmly on the path of truth and righteousness. His farmer father once gave him a hiding in church with his broad leather belt for fidgeting during the sermon. The day beer was taken off Prohibition, Billy's father went to town and bought a case. Then, in an awesome atmosphere of ritual sacrifice, he forced Billy and one of his sisters to guzzle bottle after bottle until they were sick. "It was awful," recalls Billy. He has never touched it since...
...preaching practice. Billy began at a Tampa mission for derelicts, drunks and dope addicts. His first church sermon came on Easter evening in 1938, and was a dismal flop. But Billy went on practicing -mostly exhorting the fish and alligators of a nearby swamp to leave their evil ways and be saved. He preached his first real revival at the Baptist Church of East Palatka, Fla. in June 1939. Halfway through the week-long series, word spread that Preacher Graham, nominally a Presbyterian, had never been immersed. One look at the shocked and sour faces before him and Billy...
...faithful to the salat al-jami, the obligatory Friday service. The devout shutter their shops, rush through a thorough washing, and hurry into the mosque. Clad in dignity and finery, the imam ascends the pulpit, murmurs "salaam alei-kum," recites a text from the Koran, and begins a sermon which rarely lasts more than 20 minutes. So it has been for centuries...
...reunion . . . The Holy Orthodox Church alone has preserved in full and intact 'the faith once delivered to the saints.' " But no one thought that this generally foreseen dissent changed the picture. Norway's Bishop Eivind Berggrav, ruffed like a Holbein portrait in starchy white, pointed his sermon at the "ecumaniacs" who looked for some kind of nonpapal Rome to be built in a day. "There are people," he said, "who simply get angry . . . because the churches are not prepared to unite now and on the spot. The answer to sentimental impatience has to be that the growth...
Thus the World Council of Churches opened its second Assembly (see box). U.S. Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam delivered the sermon. It was a great sermon, built around five words from the World Council's first Assembly in 1948 in Amsterdam: "We intend to stay together...