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...service at Franklin church; 2:30 p.m., Gouldsboro; leave for home at 3 :30 p.m., put wood on fire, play with pup, have nap, supper, make North Sullivan service at 5:45 p.m.; finish up with Prospect Harbor service, 7:15 p.m." At each church, she preaches the same sermon "but with variations...
...mentioned (favorably) the Golden Rule, the Sermon on the Mount, the Ten Commandments and the Constitution. He fair-dealed history, thus: "There are fewer poor people and more well-to-do people in this country now than ever before . . . This great record of progress is the result of our . . . Fair Deal . . ." The President, in closing, hoped the youngsters would carry on the high endeavor...
Evangelist Billy Graham, 35, arrived in London to conduct his own special blitz against sin. An audience of over 7,000 filled Albert Hall to hear his sermon. The Graham theme: "I am absolutely convinced that we are living in an hour just before the judgment of God strikes." His score for the first evening: seven converts...
Preacher Nichols grew up as fast as his church did. He wrote his first sermon when he was twelve ; it was read by a clergyman friend over a Salt Lake City radio station. At 15, he began preaching himself, and kept it up through his four years at Abilene Christian College (one of ten colleges maintained by the Churches of Christ). In 1947, he talked 15 Iowa congregations into sponsoring a radio program, then expanded it to include eight stations in five states...
When the Devil comes up in conversation, modern Christians have a tendency to tuck up their skirts and scurry to the shelter of safer doctrinal topics like the brotherhood of man or the Sermon on the Mount. In a book called Satan (Sheed & Ward; $5.50), newly published in the U.S., a group of scholars under the editorship of Father Bruno de Jesus-Marie, a French Carmelite, have made a frontal attack on the question of what the Devil is and what he should mean to a Christian...