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...seek ye the living among the dead?" began the Reverend Henry Sloane Coffin, President of the Union Theological Seminary in New York, in his Easter Sunday sermon before a capacity congregation in a Memorial Church gaily decorated with lillies, tulips, and daffodils...
Stocky, hard-driving Dr. Maier is a Fundamentalist, gets his fan mail from Bible readers. Last week, in a broadcast sermon at a Lutheran Rally in Manhattan, he lit into an organization which many of his fellow Fundamentalists view with alarm-the Federal Council of Churches. Denouncing it as "one of the major menaces to conservative and Biblical Christianity in this country," Lutheran Maier declared that the Federal Council maintains a radio monopoly in the U. S., which he proposes to take up with the Federal Communications Commission. As documentation. Dr. Maier quoted a statement made by the Council...
Wyeth, who won the Lee Wade award, delivered the address given by Robert Emmet in his own defense when he was sentenced to death for treason. McAllester, winner of the first Boylston Prize, recited excerpts from Robert Louis Stevenson's "Christmas Sermon...
Niemoller on Nazis. Whether or not it was "treason" for Pastor Niemoller to preach, write and talk as he has against the Nazi system, his published sermons* are undoubtedly among the most controversial ever preached. In Germany the Nazis claim to object only to what they call "Negative Christianity," claim to approve "Positive Christianity" (TIME, Aug. 10, 1936). Pastor Niemoller, in perhaps his most controversial sermon, boldly accused the Nazis of taking in this matter today exactly the line the Jews took when Christ was alive...
...members of the Secret Police, failed to catch Pastor Niemoller's high-powered implication that the Nazis are proud, race-conscious exponents of pure blood and in these respects resemble Jews. No more provocative suggestions could have been made in Germany, but Pastor Niemoller continued his sermon by shouting: "Positive Christianity, which the Jewish people wanted, clashed with Negative Christianity as Jesus himself represented it! . . . Friends, can we risk going with our nation without forgiveness of sins, without that so-called Negative Christianity which, when all is said and done, clings in repentance and faith to Jesus...