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...best you can and then you stand," said Richard Milhous Nixon, quoting a sermon he had heard in church on Sunday. Added Nixon: "I did the best I can and now I stand." In that spirit of fatalism-or resignation-Nixon flew home to California on election eve to await the people's judgment, bone-tired after a grueling campaign that had taken him 65,000 miles and into all 50 states. After a midnight rally and parade in Los Angeles, Nixon and wife Pat turned in at the Royal Suite of the Ambassador Hotel, rose after only...
What the church needs, Griffith announced in his first sermon, is a "return to orthodoxy." And what he intends to preach is "sin and redemption . . . historic gospel, timeless, Bible-centered messages which the church and only the church is capable of speaking...
...Millionaire H. L. Hunt, 71, possibly the biggest of the Big Rich, and a man far to the right of McKinley. There were reports that he had put up the money to distribute 102,000 copies to Protestant clergymen around the nation of a violently anti-Catholic, anti-Kennedy sermon by Dallas Baptist Minister W. A. Criswell, who has the biggest white Baptist congregation in the U.S. (It is illegal to distribute a political tract without identifying the source...
...problems, Southern Baptists began to come out of their provincial hard shell. Fundamentalism declined and social issues moved to the forefront-although the Baptists never took to the "Social Gospel." Today, hellfire and brimstone revivalists are increasingly scarce, and though emotion-packed evangelism is still part of every Baptist sermon, more and more Baptist preachers are university-trained. They read the classics, study foreign languages, keep informed on science. Richmond's Theodore Adams quotes Kierkegaard in his sermons; Pastor Blake Smith of the University Baptist Church of Austin, Texas likes to quote Balzac, while New Orleans...
Nihilism, that familiar Doppelädnger of the Russian spirit, keeps cropping up; under the icecap of the Soviet regime, the frozen spirit still lives. In that sense, this sharp little sermon in novel form represents good news out of Russia. Unlike Doctor Zhivago, which buried the revolutionary dead with funerary narrative, this book crackles with questions addressed to the living. It puts the Grand Interrogators under total Interrogation, and makes clear that the most feared heretics against the Communist system are those who take seriously its original visionary aim of universal happiness...