Word: sermons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years of living I have learned to draw a sharp distinction between words and action. I do not often speak of my religion, but my associates know that I subscribe to the precepts enunciated by Jesus Christ, especially in His Sermon on the Mount. In my opinion, however, it is not sufficient for an individual to profess a faith; actions alone mark the believer. During my last trip with the Chinese Communists I carried a copy of the New Testament and read the Gospels daily, with a view to comparing the precepts of Jesus with the pattern of life...
This week, in a sermon called "Communist Dynamics and the Hope of Peace." the onetime Methodist minister drew a badly needed, clear-cut line between liberalism and Communism. Said he: "Communism is a sincere but psychopathic attempt to adjust the life of man hurriedly to the world of the machine. . . . Its fatal defect is that wherever its principles are applied man loses and the machine wins. This is inherent in the nature of Communism because its faith is not in man but in social mechanics...
...sermon yesterday at Memorial Church, Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam called for hope and leadership in a world that seemed to be discouraged in the face of international and domestic problems. He said that both the problems of effective international organization and social and economic justice would have to be faced if we are to work for the brotherhood...
Taking the courage in the face of adversity displayed by Christ's disciples as the basis of his sermon, he appealed to the student congregation to give the fighting leadership needed in the world today...
...Fiorello LaGuardia: "[He was] just a humble little man who has lived the Sermon on the Mount-bigger than any man in his Party...