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...church "a place of worship, not a club with religion for an excuse." More than 72% of the congregation use the Lutherans' often-neglected Family Altar Service in their homes every day. The same personal and spiritual touch is preserved in the services in church, where the sermon is always a message from the Bible, never a topical discussion...
...Church swung into action. Bishop Nicholai of Belgrade preached a sermon against capitulation. Patriarch Gavrilo Dozitch of the Serbian Orthodox Church went to the White Palace to warn Prince Paul against giving the Germans power over the Church. Bishop Valerian Pribichevitch, brother of the late great Patriot Svetozar Pribichevitch, telegraphed his resignation to the Regent; it would become effective when Yugoslavia signed with Germany...
...form of evangelical Christianity. So did numerous other stage people?although stage interest suffered something of a setback when W. C. Fields announced that he didn't need Moral Re-Armament but would take anything in a bottle. Gertie did a scene from Susan and God and preached a sermon at the late Rev. Christian Fichthorne Reisner's Broadway (Methodist-Episcopal) Temple. The New Yorker hailed her entry into the pulpit with the comment: "That, fellows, is our idea of divine service...
...Arthur Cardinal Kinsley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, and Dr. Walter H. Armstrong, Joint Secretary of the Federal Council of the Free Churches. Winston Churchill has avoided any statement of war aims, so the churchmen set up "five standards" as a post-war plan to guide statesmen. Like the Sermon on the Mount, the standards quite clearly presupposed a new society...
...bomb the theatre was the showing of the anti-Nazi film Pastor Hall (TIME, Aug. 12). It freely parallels Pastor Niemoller's career in op position, shows a small town Lutheran parson learning what the new Nazi gospel means, suffering in a concentration camp, escaping for a final sermon to his flock before being shot. Pastor Hall, says Dr. Leiper, "understates, not overstates" the terror...