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Pastor Higgins mounted the pulpit for his first sermon...
...committee of French winegrowers is currently distributing reprints of a sermon delivered in Vannes Cathedral by the Rev. M. H. Lelong. The Bible, says Roman Catholic Father Lelong, is full of wine-there are 443 Biblical references to it, in fact. "Along with bread," he writes, "it is wine that Jesus chose to perpetuate his presence among us. Wine is not an invention of the devil but a gift of our Father, who knows us and loves...
Revivalist Billy Graham and the Devil give each other no peace. Last week Graham reported on the kind of satanic guerrilla warfare that goes on behind the scenes in response to Billy's frontal attack. He was dictating some notes for a sermon on the Devil, he said, when his dictating machine caught fire. Martin Luther threw his inkpot; Billy finished the notes in longhand and hurried to Madison Square Garden-only to find that he had lost them on the way. "Something like this always happens when I preach on the Devil," said Billy. "There...
...Sheen had begun his electronic tenure opposite Milton Berle and was still going strong last season against I Love Lucy, Revivalist Graham returned to the TV pulpit this weekend more streamlined and confident than ever. Eschewing the hell-fire-and-brimstone theatrics of his historical predecessors, he pitched his sermon just as he had for 24 consecutive nights to huge Garden crowds. He also added to his TV experience this week with Sunday appearances on Meet the Press and Steve Allen's Sunday night vaudeville hour. Explained Billy: "There is no difficulty being an evangelist and using...
This translation will be more radical than a Revised Standard Version or a competent sermon explaining Scripture. It will have to be the translation which Paul accomplished when he gave Jesus to the non-Judaic world, or the transla tion accomplished by Aquinas, who incorporated the systematic requirements of medieval metaphysics. It will, perhaps, be a translation as radical as that given Judaism by Jesus, or the Veda by Gotama...