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...final sermon as Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher told worshipers in high-vaulted St. Paul's Cathedral of the paradox that enabled Britain to survive the end of empire. "Because of its inherited and passionate belief in freedom," said he, "British imperialism had at its very heart a disbelief in the ultimate Tightness of imperialism. For that very reason, the empire could grow out of being an empire into being a commonwealth...
...member fails to show up for several weeks, Pastor Wyrick gives his name to a church officer, who telephones him for permission to pay a visit-to which he brings a taped recording of the previous Sunday's hymns and sermon. Wyrick keeps Palmetto's parishioners in touch during the week with a mimeographed news letter, a column in the Coral Gables Times, and a "Dial-a-Devotional" telephone service pepped up with maxims that he composes mostly while driving at night. Sample: "Just because a church member is always up in the air doesn't mean...
...Pastor Wyrick seems to share the old circus maxim that "the first thing to do is get 'em in the tent," he makes no apologies. He believes that only the people who are in the church can hear the sermon. "I feel that I'm doing God's work," he said last week, "but just because it's God's work I don't have to be on a mountaintop. You get the respect you deserve, and you don't get any more for sitting on a pedestal...
Blake's idea came to him about six weeks before preaching his sermon, but "it had been simmering for quite a long time." Even the 1960 presidential campaign had a share in his thinking, for "all the churches, including the Roman Catholic, came out badly...
...fear that Protestantism is withering away but because he senses a new dynamism in the Protestant churches and believes that unity is necessary to express it. He is well aware that it would be unwise to make too specific a blueprint at this stage; in his San Francisco sermon, he merely cited certain principles to be followed. On the "catholic" side...