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Witness President Nathan H. Knorr of Brooklyn set off the eight full days of song, prayer and preachment in Yankee Stadium with a fiery sermon. "Jehovah's Witnesses are one united flock!" he cried. "They will follow their King-Shepherd in His pastoral work until all of His sheep of this generation have been found and gathered out of all nations into the one flock, there safely to abide and attain endless life in Jehovah's new world...
...farewell sermon to his congregation at Hollywood's First Presbyterian Church, Pastor Louis Evans, now "minister-at-large" for the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. (TIME, Jan. 12), observed a trend: "There is a deep, quiet nostalgia for God creeping on a tired and frustrated humanity . . . America has gone religiously through three eras. The religion of our grandfathers was an experience; the religion of our fathers was a tradition; the religion of the sons had become a convenience. It looks as though we are now stepping into an era that may lead us back to the experience of God again . . . Governors...
...scared to death . . . there is no revival, no rebirth of religion, such as there was in the days just before and after World War I. There are many conversions today, but the impact is not as strong as it used to be." Title of Evangelist Jones's sermon: "Shoving Jesus Christ Around...
...48th annual convention of the Lithographers National Association, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen explained why he always speaks without notes or manuscript: "An old Irish lady, watching a bishop read his sermon, once asked, 'If he can't remember it, how does he expect...
Over the years, the general boosted enrollments from 600 to more than 1,250, supervised every one of his cadets down to the last palmetto button. Each morning, dressed in his great blue cloak ("The Shadow," cadets secretly called him), he would tour his campus and deliver a blistering sermon to any delinquent he spotted. But in spite of his strictness, his cadets learned to love him. Once, when he bluntly announced his resignation because a state senator dared to question his budget, the entire corps signed a petition begging him to stay...