Word: sermonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Billy clips a lipstick-shaped microphone to his necktie; an assistant holds the coiled slack of the wire, and pays it out to him as he moves about. On the pulpit, Billy rests two black leather books. One is a notebook containing a typed outline of tonight's sermon, the other a Bible. The outline Billy never mentions but fleetingly consults; though each new sermon is rehearsed before a mirror, Graham's delivery is always convincingly ad lib. The Bible Billy mentions constantly: "The Bible says . . . Now don't get mad at me. Billy Graham didn...
...When the sermon is over, as the 700-voice choir softly hums an "invitation" hymn (Almost Persuaded) to wavering sinners, Billy's voice speaks out again, this time in a coaxing, soothing register: "Come on . . . We're waitin' on you. Don't you want to be born again? . . . You come on, now." Down the aisles, by ones and twos, and then in groups, they come...
Reverend Wilburn K. Miller delivered a sermon entitled, "The High Hope of Adventure," in which he said "the death of religion comes with the repression of the high hope of adventure." He went on: "And egotism has no part in the great adventure. It is the humble and modest man who is the vanguard of those who would bring light and understanding to mankind...
...sermon by a minister of the Church of Christ...
After the sermon, Stevenson will attend a rally for Governor Paul A. Dever and Representative John F. Kennedy '40, at the Commander Hotel at approximately 12 noon. The rally will also be open and Stevenson is expected to make a brief address, despite his customary policy of not speaking on Sundays. Then Stevenson will go to Dever's residence on Buckingham St., Cambridge...