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...bought the Times itself with the help of his bloody pennies. Harmsworth and others like him repeated the still popular yellow-press hypocrisy that the aim of a foul story was not to please, but to educate the public; thus, the reader was expected to find a sort of Sermon on the Mount in a discussion of the murder of prostitutes "by mutilation, dismemberment, garrotting, throat-slitting and clubbing." ("I have a small collection of moral remarks," confessed one hack merrily, "all nicely cut & dried, and when I am at a loss to fill my chapter, I stick...
...Statesman and Nation's attack on us. It is a choice example of the odd logic of so many of the assailants of our "irrelevant" doctrine and our "decaying" church. "Why should anybody go to church," asks Editor Kingsley Martin [TIME, July 19], "and listen to the Sermon on the Mount, when they know that atom bombs are being made for use?" Why, he asks, listen to the greatest compendium of moral law ever issued, in a time of singular moral lawlessness? In other words, why should anybody be such a fool as to consult a physician...
...they started from Euston and to Brighton if they went from Victoria. Nothing can revive that belief. Once they believed that Christian principles had something to do with public conduct. But why should . . . anybody . .. expect people to go to church and listen with respect to a priest reading the Sermon on the Mount, when they know that atom bombs are being made for use? The Church decays because the doctrines so often seem irrelevant to the issues of life and death, about which it is supposed to give the answers...
Commencement Week regained another of the trappings of normaley Sunday afternoon when President Conant returned to the pulpit of Memorial Church to deliver his first baccalaureate sermon since...
...religion but a wide-eyed Russophile in his politics. The convention picked a home-town boy for the job: Dr. Robert Greene Lee, 61, of Memphis' Bellevue Baptist Church, the largest white Baptist congregation east of the Mississippi. He is famed for his preaching-especially for his spellbinding sermon, "Pay Day Some Day," on King Ahab and his wicked wife Jezebel. Last week in Memphis, 8,000 Southern Baptists heard their new president preach it again-for the 316th time...