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...defect in the public-address system caused a buzzing that made it difficult to hear parts of Billy's sermon. But when he called for "decisions for Christ," 623 Frenchmen-young and old, shabby and well-dressed-shuffled down the aisle while a mixed choir of 500 sang softly and Billy waited with folded arms...
...Hayes, James K. Polk, William McKinley, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman) occasionally worshiped there; Franklin Roosevelt and Sir Winston Churchill went there on Christmas Day in 1941 to pray. Last week Foundry's pastor for the past 31 years, silver-thatched Dr. Frederick Brown Harris, preached his farewell sermon. At the compulsory retirement age of 72, well-loved Dr. Harris was leaving Foundry to give more time to his other job-chaplain of the U.S. Senate...
Perhaps the most appealing of the Center's discoveries has been that creative altruism, as formulated in the Sermon on the Mount. "Blessed are meek ...") does work in actual practical cases...
...record crowd of over 1300 jammed Memorial Church yesterday morning to hear a sermon by Reinhold Niebuhr, vice-president of the Union Theological Seminary. The ushers lost count after 1200 worshippers had filled Appleton Chapel as well as the nave and balcony of the Church, where they sat on the stop until a policeman required them to stand so as not to block the aisles...
Niebuhr's sermon, the text of which was the parable of the Pharisees and publicans, urged that goodness and self-realization cannot be truly attained if they are too actively sought after, and suggested that too sharp a distinction between good and evil was unwise, because "the taint of evil against which we contend is in us also...