Word: sermons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Faith in the Devil. Church attendance was obligatory for members of the royal household. "One Sunday the minister [at Balmoral], Mr. MacGregor. preached on the devil. Afterwards he asked Princess Louise whether the Queen liked his sermon. 'She said she ... should think not, as the Queen did not altogether believe in the devil.' " Said the Rev. Mr. MacGregor: "Puir body." Even more amusing is the story of wealthy, eccentric
...Manhattan movie man was interested. He was Edward A. Golden, a chubby, John Bunnyish old gentleman who had been a dentist for five years, a film distributor for 30. Distributor Golden had taken a shy at production not long before with a for-adults-only sermon on syphilis entitled No Greater Sin. The minute Golden read Education he knew it would make a picture. He even knew the title: Hitler's Children. That afternoon he gave Author Ziemer's agent $250 for a month's option on the film rights. Next day he started making the rounds...
Most people expected 77-year-old Bishop William Thomas Manning to bounce up belligerently from his desk in the House of Bishops. For six years Bishop Manning has battled unity, recently dealt it a thudding blow in a sermon at New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine (TIME, Sept. 20). Instead, Albany's Bishop G. Ashton Oldham rose to stroke the porcupine. Gravely he expressed his conviction that if either report were debated it would result in "an unpleasant and unedifying discussion." He suggested that the Bishops adopt neither report, but authorize the Commission to "continue...
Varying the procedure common to divine services, Chaplain (Lt.) Carl Knudsen, USNR, will devote the sermon period to consideration of spiritual and ethical questions put to him during the 35 minute Service Chapel conducted in Potter Hall this Sunday evening...
After 1 6 months in a hospital, where his left arm was amputated, Tucker worked his way through high school, Houghton College, Eastern Baptist Theological Sem inary. Last Sunday he preached his first sermon...