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Illness has forced Reinhold Niebuhr to cancel his scheduled lecture series and Memorial Church sermon here this spring, the Appleton Club announced yesterday. The Club, which was to have sponsored Niebuhr's talks here on March 16, 17, and 18, revealed yesterday that it does not intend to substitute another lecturer...
Bishop Francis J. McConnells first sermon, as he recalls it, "covered a vast range of lofty religious principles, well up in the air. After having risen so thoroughly to the heights, I decided that the next Sunday I would get down closer to earth and stay there, a resolution I have been trying to keep ever since...
...monk himself under a rule of silence. It relates how the man who went sadly away, "for he had great possessions," gambled his fortune and took to crime, ending as the Penitent Thief on the cross. This unexpected light on a familiar text is typical of a Knox sermon...
...National Guard armory with his prayer "crusade" (TIME, Jan. 28), most of the capital's Protestant clergymen looked on with either approval or polite silence. Not so the Rev. A. Powell Davies, pastor of Washington's socially prominent All Souls' Unitarian Church. Fortnight ago, in a sermon reported in Washington newspapers, Dr. Davies expressed Unitarian disapproval of Billy Graham's oldtime religion. Said he: "Heaven and hell, the description of God, the provision of a supernatural salvation-all these, at best, are mere assertions." He warned his congregation that too much talk...
Besides a large number of gooey lines like this, Bright Victory also contains a love story and a sermon against prejudice. Then, of course, there is the "heart-throbbing" music--in case one doesn't realize that it's time...