Word: sermonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dwight Eisenhower and his wife dropped into the chapel at Denver's Lowry Air Force Base last week and listened to a forcefully delivered sermon on that theme. The chaplain retold the rugged Old Testament story of how the Israelites, trusting in the sacred ark of the covenant as a magic talisman, had fought slackly against the Philistines, and of how the Philistines smote 30,000 Israelites by following the sturdy advice of I Samuel 4:9. The chaplain's point: too many rely for help and salvation on religious symbols and make too little personal effort toward...
Afterward, chatting over coffee and pecan rolls at an officers' club reception on the air base, Ike Eisenhower gave the sermon his endorsement, and told a little about his own taste in preaching: "Mamie and I were having an argument about what denomination the chaplain belonged to. Mamie thought he was an Episcopalian. I knew he wasn't a Presbyterian when he said 'trespasses' instead of 'debts' in the Lord's Prayer. But I knew he wasn't an Episcopalian. They are too darn dignified. I like to be enthusiastic...
...seminarians found a few heartening exceptions. One minister on Chicago's West Side enlivened his sermon by displaying two heroin needles; one dramatized the meaning of repentance by barking "Halt! Attention! About face! Forward March! Amen." Another likened the forgiveness of God to "the feeling of getting two or three machines off your back...
Witness President Nathan H. Knorr of Brooklyn set off the eight full days of song, prayer and preachment in Yankee Stadium with a fiery sermon. "Jehovah's Witnesses are one united flock!" he cried. "They will follow their King-Shepherd in His pastoral work until all of His sheep of this generation have been found and gathered out of all nations into the one flock, there safely to abide and attain endless life in Jehovah's new world...
...farewell sermon to his congregation at Hollywood's First Presbyterian Church, Pastor Louis Evans, now "minister-at-large" for the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. (TIME, Jan. 12), observed a trend: "There is a deep, quiet nostalgia for God creeping on a tired and frustrated humanity . . . America has gone religiously through three eras. The religion of our grandfathers was an experience; the religion of our fathers was a tradition; the religion of the sons had become a convenience. It looks as though we are now stepping into an era that may lead us back to the experience of God again . . . Governors...