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...concession to these critics, the board agreed to paste brown tape over or tear out such religious passages as the Sermon on the Mount. But outside of that, it would take no guff about McGuffey. Said Beula: "McGuffey teaches the basic morals of Americanism-honor your parents, honesty, love animals." Said Pfeiffer: "McGuffey builds recognition of the heroic, the elevated, the patriotic strength on which our country is based. If we had McGuffey's in our schools we never would have had the defections we had in Korea...
...After noisily establishing the Romans in Palestine. Scenarist Yordan moves swiftly and synoptically through the Gospels: The Nativity, The Flight into Egypt. The Massacre of the Innocents; Christ's boyhood, baptism and temptation in the desert; Salome's Dance and the murder of John the Baptist; the Sermon on the Mount, the triumphal procession to Jerusalem, the Last Supper, the Agony in the Garden, the Trial before Pilate, the Ascent of Calvary, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection. Unfortunately, many of these episodes are shamelessly scanted and most of Christ's miracles-certainly the most dramatic moments...
...venerable Chrysostom, 81, Metropolitan of Neapolis, Thasos and Philippi, and was actually run by an Athenagoras protégé-slim, black-bearded and also named Chrysostom, the Metropolitan of Myron-who served as the meeting's executive secretary. With true Orthodox grandiloquence, he said in his sermon at the opening Mass: "If I could characterize the Pan-Orthodox Conference in one word, I should not hesitate to say that it is a conference for the projection of Orthodoxy on a scale which is Pan-Orthodox, Pan-Christian and worldwide...
...schedule is crowded with speaking engagements all over the U.S. and abroad, but he has not slighted his own congregation, whose size forces him to preach two identical Sunday sermons, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Once, in order not to break a 44-year record of never having missed a sermon because of illness, he preached in a laryngitic whisper into a microphone held against his lips...
...Francis Drake of Leverett, Mass., stood in shirtsleeves and sunglasses for the opening prayer. The Rev. George Condon of Pelham, Mass., read the Biblical account of how Christ calmed the storm. The Rev. Philip Steinmetz of Ashfield, Mass., braced himself in the boat and gave the sermon...