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...piece orchestra played rousing sacred music. A reformed jailbird, a one-time drug-addict, a converted cowpuncher, a ''reformed Presbyterian deacon" gave testimonials. A brief, fierce sermon whipped up the pulses of 1,500 people in the arched, open-walled tabernacle. One by one they hurried up to kneel in straw and sawdust by a long bench-like altar. Rawboned, hot-eyed men lifted clasped hands high in prayer. Women wailed, waved their arms, chanted gibberish. Small bewildered children noisily imitated their elders. The din rose, night after night, week after week, while plain people nearby stirred crossly...
...sensitive spirit who in your July 15 issue deplores your "stench of debasing animalism" and wistfully looks forward to the day when the postman will no longer force him to accept TIME. Seeing his letter today (Sunday), and remembering his pretty gift for snappy sermon titles, I was moved to note tonight's offering on his billboard. Well, he will particularize "A Kiss That Didn't Count." That should catch many a hesitant eye tempted to rove among the bathing beauties of nearby Lake Harriet. It's hot here in July, too, so every automobile...
...clock. Baccalaureate Sermon, President James B. Conant, Memorial Church...
...first sermon having been satisfactorily Fundamentalist, Pastor McComb last week faced another test-reception by the liberal Presbytery of New York. Gathered in Fifth Avenue Church, 100 laymen and ministers began by cautiously examining Mr. McComb as to his theology and character, so cautiously that one minister chided them all for ''pussyfooting and chasing around the bush." What was in their minds, he knew, was: would Fundamentalist McComb be loyal to the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions? Or was he mixed up in that Independent Board which has caused the Presbyterian Church so much trouble? Mr. McComb finally...
...reproduce such historic utterances as Lincoln's Gettysburg Address or Shakespeare's remarks after the opening performance of Hamlet. With more daring than credibility, Playwright, van Druten (Young Woodley) has seized upon the idea of recapturing thoughts expressed in the past as the crux for a dramatic sermon on the wastage of war. A rich and sympathetic husband has provided Naomi Jacklin (Katharine Cornell) with the material to build a mental barricade against her personal War tragedy. In 1914 she was in love with a poet. Life at the front so embittered him that Naomi came to believe...