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After a short, stern sermon on work as Mexico's only salvation. Ruiz Cortines proclaimed a 30-point program of action for dealing with the economic consequences of devaluation. Items: ¶250,000 federal employees will get a 10% pay raise June 1. ¶Private employers should follow suit, absorbing the raises. ¶ Farm support prices on corn, beans, wheat and rice will also be raised 10%. ¶The record $400 million public-works program will be speeded up. ¶Export industries will get government credit and tax rebates, and the 25% export tax imposed at the time...
...just bootleg the Gospel," a well-tailored young groceryman told an audience of 1,500 Baptist men in Fort Worth one night last week. Then Layman Howard Edward Butt Jr., 26, preached a sermon on one of his favorite themes: Christians must have the dedication to their cause that Communists have for theirs. His listeners liked it so well that they asked him to come back next August and preach an eight-day revival...
Every Sunday, Leonard J. Feeney leads "The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary," down to the Boston Common and delivers a sermon based on the premise that there is no salvation outside of the Catholic Church. Last week, a large and for the most part curious crowd gathered in the warm air to hear the excommunicated Priest's sermon for Easter...
...when the minister sees the Christian world view penetrating an immediately relevant human situation," he writes, "that a sermon is born." Cleland finds his "relevant human situations" wherever he happens to be; his sermons to Duke students are likely to take off from yesterday's classroom, last night's fraternity dance or Saturday's basketball game. They are peppered with anecdotes, delivered with fine timing...
Then in his Southern accent he launched into a rapid-fire sermon. In the last five years, he said, "we have seen the greatest religious wave in our history sweep the U.S. Arthur Godfrey now talks about religion on television." By the time he wound up, with George Beverly Shea, a member of the Graham team, singing his own composition, I'd Rather Have Jesus Than Anything Else, most of the knife-thoughts had been washed out of the newsmen. A woman reporter found him completely disarming. "He seems to have the sincerity, ingenuousness, the sort of simple charm...