Word: sermonizer
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...Criswell, pastor of the largest Southern Baptist Church in the United States,* went to Ibadan to preach last Sunday. The African pastor announced he had decided to preach himself. The white preacher sat in the pew and listened to a sermon in a foreign language . . . The Africans [determine] the policies of the churches . . . The missionaries have no authority over the natives except that which love provides. There has been much service in the past, so there is much love...
...year two Korean Communists dropped by at the Underwood house. Mrs. Underwood, who was entertaining some friends at tea, went to the door to see what they wanted. The intruders pumped a charge from a sawed-off U.S. carbine into her (TIME, March 28, 1949)-Hedge himself preached the sermon at his mother's funeral...
...come to Longido in the Masai Plains to baptize some adults. The chapel was small and the Christians, the baptismal candidates and many others gathered under the trees. Suddenly during the sermon the Masai chief and his warriors began to come in groups. Within ten minutes our assembly was surrounded by a ring of fully armed warriors looking irritated and with a strange light in their eyes. It seemed apparent they had come to make trouble. But we were allowed to finish our service unmolested...
...through the haze. Tanned farmers, assembled from their parched fields, looked silently up at it. "We thank Thee for Thy goodness," said a voice from the platform. Children romping on the brown grass were shushed by their parents. George Etzell, editor of the Clarissa Independent, took notes on the sermon, sitting near the war memorial bearing the names of Clarissa citizens who fought in two wars. Three families at the service were thinking of their sons in Korea. The benediction was given and the congregation sang My country, 'tis of thee...
...white shoes, called to warn him that the U.S. people are gripped by "a fear you could almost call hysteria" and suggested the President proclaim a national day of prayer and humiliation. Mildly, Harry Truman told Graham that the answers to today's problems were found in the Sermon on the Mount, particularly the Seventh Beatitude: "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God." Billy emerged pleased; but there would be no national day of humiliation...