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Clinton Locy was a cattle ranch foreman in Southern California when a Baptist preacher persuaded him to go to church. He heard one sermon and decided to be a preacher himself. Last week he gave a sermon that lasted 48 hours and 18 minutes...
...Monday. Clinton Locy called it quits. He had made his way through all the Old Testament and most of the New, sung some hymns, lectured on the Holy Land, and delivered some reflections on the atom bomb. "If anyone had sat through the entire sermon," he said, "they would have heard as much Gospel as they'd get in a year at church...
...talked about the goodness of God, never His wrath. "Why," he asked in one sermon, "should we attribute to God the capital sin of Anger?" He complained that there were too many flowers in the church: "When you smother the altar in flowers you take away from its original beauty." He even objected to feast-day processions. "I am deeply shocked," he wrote his superiors, "by the neopaganism of the masses." Father Dubois did not believe in collections, either, never pleaded for money to buy a new altar cloth or fix the roof, and packed his eight Sunday services with...
Criticizing the increasingly rapid pace of modern life, George A. Buttrick gave his first sermon as Chairman of the Board of Preachers yesterday in Memorial Chapel. Buttrick said that it is impossible to know life's goal while constantly hurrying, and pointed out that Christ had none of our excessive speed. "We have the appearance of people pursued," said Buttrick. "This is strange, for our human wisdom, even on the secular level, endorses God's method of slowness...
Buttrick, formerly pastor of New York's Madison Ave. Presbyterian Church and professor of Homileetics at Union Theological Seminary, will preach almost all of the sermons in Memorial Chapel during the spring term. Yesterday's sermon began his pre-Lenten series which the University announced last October, a departure from the previous chapel procedure of a different clergyman speaking each week...