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...reunion . . . The Holy Orthodox Church alone has preserved in full and intact 'the faith once delivered to the saints.' " But no one thought that this generally foreseen dissent changed the picture. Norway's Bishop Eivind Berggrav, ruffed like a Holbein portrait in starchy white, pointed his sermon at the "ecumaniacs" who looked for some kind of nonpapal Rome to be built in a day. "There are people," he said, "who simply get angry . . . because the churches are not prepared to unite now and on the spot. The answer to sentimental impatience has to be that the growth...
Thus the World Council of Churches opened its second Assembly (see box). U.S. Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam delivered the sermon. It was a great sermon, built around five words from the World Council's first Assembly in 1948 in Amsterdam: "We intend to stay together...
...efforts to scour away some of this blackness, Jessie used to gather mountaineer women into meetings. She would suddenly stand up and snap, "I smell sin," then launch into a sermon reeking with brimstone. One of Gatineau's few doctors recalls: "These ignorant women didn't know how Jessie had found them out, and were terrified when she started telling them the agonies of hellfire. Next day my office would be full of hysterical women about to have a breakdown...
Instead of tossing a dignified clerical hat into the air at Congress' decision to insert the words "under God" in the pledge of allegiance to the Flag (TIME, May 17), the Episcopal Living Church this week confined itself to a stern little sermon on its meaning...
...converted. Outside, a guard advised the curious: "Entry only for those who have turned to Jesus Christ tonight." Soon after the meeting, Graham doubled up in pain; German physicians diagnosed the trouble as a "blocked kidney." But next day, Graham hopped off to Berlin for another big revival sermon to 70,000 in the vast Olympic Stadium. Then Graham fell ill again, not seriously. But it was enough to delay his next mission-a trip to Paris to treat with the sinners of France...