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...longer content to accept a single act of adultery as a sufficient ground." Other British prelates have gone on record in the same vein lately. Unfaithfulness, said the Archbishop of York, "should never be treated as the one unforgivable sin," and Bishop J.W.C. Wand of London said in a sermon: "It is a pernicious idea that if one partner has been unfaithful, then the home must be destroyed...
...poses certain Constitutional questions. No one doubts that the Supreme Court would block any move of the Internal Revenue Department to print little mottoes at the bottom of its forms, like "A Family That Prays Together, stays Together." It seems unlikely that Westchester County has the right to sermon a similarly captive audience on the virtues of safety...
...might well remember a Thanksgiving Day sermon Dr. Coffin preached ten years ago. Americans, he said, were always "self-reliant, not to say cocky," but only "penitent, pardoned and therefore truly humble Americans" would do any good in the world. It was a favorite theme of his: "Selfsufficiency is the very essence of sin ... What a lot of rubbish has been written about being masters of our fate and captains of our soul! We have not realized that in threescore years and ten, man does not pass much beyond the kindergarten stage . . . Let a man be aware that...
...usual, had quoted out of context from newspaper clippings to prove the charge. This habit of Joe's reminded Ervin of the North Carolina preacher who about 75 years ago deplored the local women's custom of wearing their hair in topknots. One Sunday he preached a sermon on the text: "Top (K)Not Come Down." At the end an irate woman-with a topknot-protested that no such text could be found in the Bible. Whereupon the preacher opened the Scriptures to Matthew 24:17 and read: "Let him which is on the house top not come...
...Billy Graham Evangelistic Association). The Grahams do their best to keep their four children-Virginia, 9; Anne, 6; Ruth, 3; and William Franklin III, 2-from "hamming it up" for the tourists, who sometimes come in busloads to stare at the house. Virginia is currently trying to learn the Sermon on the Mount by heart, has been promised a bike and $25 if she gets it down pat by Christmas. "I don't think she's going to make it," laughs her father...