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Died. The Rev. Dr. Ralph W. Sock-man, 80, famed radio preacher who propounded Christian verities to millions of Americans each Sunday from 1928 to 1962 over NBC's National Radio Pulpit; of cancer; in Manhattan. Sockman was minister of Manhattan's Christ Church, Methodist, and the author of numerous inspirational books (The Higher Happiness, How to Believe). But his largest audience was on the air waves, where, as he once put it, "I pitched my sermons on a level somewhere between Reinhold Niebuhr and Norman Vincent Peale...
...Theologian Karl Earth lecturing on evangelical theology. McCracken's current bestseller: the world-traveling Orphans' Choir from Korea. He recently started another record club, which will feature long-play sermons by Christian leaders such as Baptist Billy Graham, Los Angeles Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy, and Dr. Ralph Sockman, pastor emeritus of Manhattan's Methodist Christ Church...
Episcopal Church, the aging congregation and "disintegrating" neighborhood gave the church a life expectancy of five years. Sockman built up a new, young congregation; real estate breaks reversed the neighborhood's disintegration. When the congregation sold the church in 1929 to move to Park Avenue, the 90-ft. by 100-ft. plot brought...
...Shot in the Head. Preaching has always been Ralph Sockman's special ministry; he is generally acknowledged as the best Protestant preacher in the U.S. He is one of the alltime veterans of the air waves; for 33 years his voice has been heard on the National Radio Pulpit at 10 a.m. Sundays. Shunning the emotionalism of Evangelist Billy Graham, his lucid sermons - many of them published in his 20-odd books - are designed to teach as well as inspire. "You've got to put something in people's heads," he told a friend last week, "rather...
...Sockman is much concerned with the decline of preaching in the churches today, and plans to spend much of his retirement visiting seminaries to stimulate interest in the pulpit among fledgling ministers preoccupied with pastoral counseling and group activities. Says he: "The churches today are better organized than they are pulpitized. The greatest need of the contemporary church is the strengthening of the local pulpits. I just happen to think that there's more need for strong preaching than for administration...