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...Episcopal Church of St. Clement, two halves of the congregation face each other while during the sermon the preacher faces the middle space between the two groups, so that they may gaze at each other, apparently ignoring the preacher. This is the opposite of functionalism...
...sermon, the 31-year old Mr. Graham exhibited his powerful voice and dramatic ability. When he said that "Moses would have told them to stone this woman to death," he went through the motions of stoning some invisible body lying on the stage before him. However, his gestures were stereotyped and his repertory small; I found him using many precise declamatory gestures loosely and without specific meaning...
...audience was quiet and attentive to the sermon, unlike some revival audiences this writer has seen in the South. Some excerpts from the sermon: "It was the common people that Christ appealed to. And it's the common people that Communism is appealing to. Communism is inspired by the Devil . . . Another evangelist once told me, 'Billy, the spiritual mentality of our people is only 12 years old, remember that. We need to talk the language of the streets today.' . . . But I tell you that a revival will come, I tell you, brother, it will come when the first bomb...
...Marines and enlisted personnel of the Navy. Ex-Air Corps men may apply if they'll quit telling us how they won the war. Ex-Brass is acceptable only if well tarnished . . . Restricted clientele: This project is restricted to folks who understand the Sermon on the Mount, believe in the Ten Commandments and practice the Golden Rule. These apartments were built with Uncle Sam's and our dough. Neither Uncle Sam nor we want tenants who are members of subversive, anti-American hate organizations like the Ku Klux Klan...
...best. The tall, 68-year-old pastor took his text from Matthew 2:1: "Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the King, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem . . ." The minister laid down his Testament, and began his sermon...