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Pusey began his address by pointing out the difficulty in making a traditional Baccalaureate sermon "because there has been no commonly understood or universally accepted vocabulary in which such an address can be made...
...Graham hopefully, he would like to launch a 26-week religious TV extravaganza. Its sponsors would have to be content with institutional plugs, no hard sell. Though one of the hottest salesmen ever to push intangibles, Billy admits: "It would be difficult to break into the middle of a sermon and start selling tooth paste." But Orator Graham may have difficulty convincing a sponsor to accept him on those terms...
...strength. By 1948, the Communists decided to move in and take over. They were just beginning to bring pressure on the nation's youth when Bishop Wyszynski was appointed archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw, and hence Primate of Poland to succeed the late Cardinal Hlond. In his first sermon in Warsaw's baroque Church of the Carmelite, Wyszynski declared: "I am neither a politician nor a diplomat. I am your spiritual father, your shepherd, bishop of your souls...
Wyszynski's resistance to the Communists stiffened. When a Polish bishop was tried on phony espionage charges, Wyszynski delivered an angry sermon in which he said: "Today they speak of criminals, perhaps tomorrow one will speak of holy criminals." On Sept. 25, 1953, the secret police came to take him away. Cardinal Wyszynski had still one more touch of consideration for the enemy: when one of the arresting officers was bitten by a watchdog, the cardinal insisted on personally bandaging his hand...
...preached his first sermon at Warsaw's Church of the Holy Cross, where he had been scheduled to speak just before being taken prisoner. "My dear children of God.'" he began. "I am a little late-only a little more than three years. Forgive me; it is the first time that anything like that has happened...