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...Christian Herald in releasing its annual church statistics last summer (TIME, July 12). But Statistician Roger Ward Babson, Moderator of the National Council of the Congregational-Christian Church, has long believed, from a study he made of 1,000 churches, that church attendance is decreasing. Last month, in a sermon such as he delivers annually to Congregationalists at Isles of Shoals, N. H., Moderator Babson impugned the Christian, Herald figures, said that church rolls "contain not only the names of millions who have repudiated the church of their youth-but also millions who are dead and buried physically...
...some visiting Germans drove to the nearby Black Forest, others gazed at Stuttgart's modernistic buildings, Bishop Theophil Würm-one of the Lutheran signers of a declaration drafted last week against Nazi religious aims-delivered a fighting sermon to his usual Sunday congregation in the Württemberg capital...
President Roosevelt had the opportunity to take immediate advantage of his opposition's adversity and demand whatever he wished. Without promising to release any pegging funds, he had so far contented himself with a sermon on the need of crop control...
Testament into journalese. There the peppery, dogmatic rector of old Christ Church, 77-year-old Rev. Louis Cope Washburn, preached his retiring sermon last January with a bandage about his head, result of an encounter in which he bested a footpad with his umbrella. Episcopal Rev. Dr. David McConnell Steele believes that Lent is a bore (TIME, March 30, 1936), Rev. "Jack" Hart this summer founded the Episcopal Anti-Mothball Society (TIME, July 12), "Rev." Mary Hubbert Ellis scuttles about looking for nude statues to cover up, and Rev. Dr. George Chalmers Richmond broods in a Philadelphia suburb over...
...become heavier (weight 69 lb.), has substituted a brushed-back bob for the Dutch bangs of his pre-ministerial days. Under the tutelage of his middle-aged nurse and nose-wiper, Neva Duff, he has learned to read from the Bible, study third-grade subjects. But he still sermonizes by rote, had to be coached by Nurse Duff in his ordination sermon. Cocky, pounding fist on fist to emphasize his points, he shrilled: "I want to assure you there is a Hell, and it's a place, not just a state." When his audience oh-ed and ahed...