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...hope from Daughter Roberta's victory last week. But Sister Aimee exhibited little chagrin. With a substantial number of her Temple addicts still loyal, she put on a garment of white chiffon which could be swished out behind her like a pair of wings, and preached a stirring sermon about her Cause. Into a "defense pot'' Four Square Gospelers tossed money, jewelry, gold bridgework...
Preston Bradley, son of a blacksmith of Linden, Mich., preached his first sermon at 15, studied law and obtained a D. C. L. degree, then returned to the church as a Presbyterian student pastor. Before he even got around to studying theology, Preston Bradley withdrew from the Presbyterian Church, began preaching independently, set up Peoples Church as an "all-sectarian" group in a Chicago theatre. By 1926, when he built a $750,000 church on the North Side, Dr. Bradley had found Unitarianism to his taste, affiliated his congregation with the American Unitarian Association. Peoples Churchgoers contribute...
Apology, When Lord Tweedsmuir stood before the U. S. Senate, he made an apology: "I remember in my own country on the Scottish border there was an old minister who once a month thought it his duty to deliver a sermon upon the terrors of hell, when he sternly dangled his congregation over the abyss; but being a humane man, he liked to finish on a gentler note. He used to conclude thus: 'Of course, my friends, ye understand that the Almighty is compelled to do things in His official capacity that He would scorn...
...being spared "fatiguing public appearances." Chicago Tribune's David Darrah and United Press's Dan Rogers broke stories that the Archbishop of Canterbury is slashing the Coronation Service right & left in efforts to get it as short and unfatiguing as possible, has decided to omit the sermon, hopes to telescope the ritual from a service normally of about four hours' duration into one, starting at the Abbey at 11 a. m., with the King out of the Abbey by 1:30 and back in Buckingham Palace...
...have noticed several striking differences at Zion. To begin with, Zion's Passion Play is not strictly a Passion Play, i. e., it does not concern itself solely with the agony and death of Christ, but is a sort of theatrical biography of The Savior, beginning with the Sermon on the Mount and concluding, unconventionally, with the spectacular, if mechanically precarious Ascension. Mary, Mother of Jesus, instead of being young and comely, is white-haired, stout and comely as played by Blanche Kessler, telephone operator in the Zion Administration Building. However, Zionites like their show immensely, cluck appreciatively...