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Fifty last week was Pastor Martin Niemöller, now in his fifth year in a Nazi concentration camp. In Britain the BBC celebrated his birthday with a German broadcast of his 1937 New Year's sermon on Germany's "de-Christianization" by "the forces of evil who despotically govern us." In the U.S. fellow German Thomas Mann paid tribute: "Here is a man who went his way to the cross with full awareness of the terror...
...Religious broadcasts are "overloaded with talk"-70 of Chicago's 77 religious programs per week are either wholly or largely devoted to a sermon...
...American Book of Common Prayer ("Almighty God, who has given us this good land for our heritage. . . ."-TIME, Dec. 15). The hymns were militant : God of Our Fathers, Once To Every Man and Nation (James Russell Lowell's great hymn), America and Battle Hymn of the Republic. The sermon was militant: Rector Welles asked God's pardon for past shortcomings, asked power for the task of victory, asked for peace by God's help. He preached the "sin of international irresponsibility": "We have passed by on the other side when we have seen other nations in need...
When he had finished, white-haired, sedate Chaplain Ze Barney Phillips leaned over and whispered: "Mr. Prime Minister, you are the most perfect master of the English language in all the world." The Prime Minister grinned, replied: "After hearing your sermon yesterday [at Christmas services in Foundry Methodist Church] I know you should be a good judge...
...nightmare retreat of the British Army across France and the howling hell of Dunkirk, the U.S. Army found a pregnant sermon for its officers to ponder. For the past month the Army has heard that sermon delivered by a man who had come through the awful works and could tell how. Pink-cheeked, 45-year-old British Brigadier Thomas Needham Furnival Wilson, D.S.O., M.C., returned to Washington last week (and set off forthwith for the Carolina maneuvers) after a 30-day lecture tour in U.S. Army posts. Total of his officer audiences: close...