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...Committee hopes a monthly service will allow worshippers to become familiar with the meaning of the prayers, borrowed from various liturgies, and that it will counter the present tendency to overemphasize the sermon...
Materialist Morality. Author Rand's philosophy, hammered home in endless hectoring and lecturing, seems based mostly on Nietzsche's inversion of all Christian values, with an admixture of Adam Smith economics and David Hume ethics, both carried to absurd extremes. The greatest sin is following the Sermon on the Mount. Selfishness is the highest good, the spirit of sacrifice the worst evil. In shrill outcry against government and religion, Author Rand defines taxes as "protection money" paid to "gangsters," and the doctrine of Original Sin as responsible for destroying Man's "reason, morality, creativeness, joy." She frenetically...
...near-rags and wasted by dysentery, tottered ashore at Boston Harbor. After convincing one rector that he was indeed a clergyman ("my ship-clothes not being the best credentials"), Charles Wesley, prolific composer (6,500 hymns) and restless younger brother of Methodism's Founder John Wesley, preached a sermon in Christ Church, better known as the Old North Church...
Last week, on the 221st anniversary of Wesley's Christ Church sermon and the 250th anniversary of the year of his birth, some 50 Methodist and Episcopal clergymen marched into the Old North Church to the chimed tunes of Wesley's hymns (two of the best-known: Jesus, Lover of my soul, Hark ! the herald angels sing), to take part in a memorial service. The sermon bore the same title (''One Needful Thing") as Charles Wesley's, and its substance was the stern kind of moralizing that the 18th century preacher would have approved. Methodist...
Died. The Rev. A. (for Arthur) Powell Davies, 55, eloquent pastor of Washington's All Souls Unitarian Church (since 1944), author of liberalized gospel (The Urge to Persecute); of a heart attack; in Washington. Davies often used his well-attended sermons to dissect current events: when fellow traveling was still in vogue, he prodded U.S. liberals; when Congressional Investigators McCarthy, Velde and Jenner were glorified, he blasted them as "men of tyranny." Two days before his death, Davies appeared on WABD's Nightbeat, was asked by Newsgriller John Wingate what would be the theme of his last sermon...