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...Last Sunday morning in the First Presbyterian Church of Columbus, Ohio, I preached a sermon from two texts: Lincoln's "With malice toward none" and Christ's "Love your enemy and pray for them that persecute you." . . .To my amazement I have never had a congregation respond with so many who have earnestly gripped my hand and said, "How we have waited for someone to say just that...
President Conant's Baccalaureate Sermon to the Senior Class on Sunday afternoon, June 16, opens the week, which in addition to Thursday's rituals, will be featured by the Senior Spread on Monday, Class Day on Wednesday, and the Yale races at New London on Friday...
...Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, King George and Queen Elizabeth attended services at Westminster Abbey to hear the Archbishop of Canterbury assure them that "it cannot be the will of God that a rule of brute force . . . should prevail on the earth." Catholic Cardinal Hinsley's more vitriolic sermon at Westminster Cathedral, proclaiming that "there cannot be peace until by God's aid this hideous system [Hitlerism] vanishes from the world," was interrupted by a middle-aged woman quoting Scripture: "My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it. . . ." She was hustled...
...Utah Church history quotes a sermon preached by Joseph Smith on May 26, 1844, one month before he was killed, in which he very earnestly stated that he had but one wife. Unless and until Utah impeaches his credibility, that averment is accepted by us descendants...
...that University on whose doorstep the arms of Washington came into being; whose sons were foremost among the resolute, skilled and fire-hardened men who turned the tide at Gettysburg; whose undergraduates and graduates when out by thousands in 1917 saying, in the words of President Lowell's Baccalaureate Sermon to our class, "There is a sound of a going in the tops of the trees, and we must bestir ourselves ... believing that it is a call...