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...retreat of the Cowley Fathers, black-robed brothers of the Order of St. John the Evangelist, who have come to seek heavenly peace on the fringe of the State's No. 2 industrial city. It is from here that the fathers set out on their nation-wide pilgrimages to preach the Episcopalian gospel; it is here that a good many world-weary sinners--ex-convicts, professors, journalists--have spent a quiet week of spiritual refreshment...
...Harlem big shot who runs a barbecue near Lenox Avenue called Aunt Dinah's Kitchen, and operates on the side a theatrical booking office for Negro talent. As Bossman Huey explained the setup: "Over on the right here we got the sheep. . . . They sing hymns, and they preach sermons and they is taken up with the spiritual side of life. Then over on the left here is the goats. . . . Among them I see gamblers, a couple of cake-eaters, some jitterbugs and some rug cutters...
...according to the Gallup poll-in the race for the Republican nomination. And before him, besides the Western ranges, lay a series of talks in Helena, Spokane, Portland, Salt Lake, Boise, 20-odd weeks before the Republican convention would meet in Philadelphia (see p. 17), and a chance to preach the doctrine of future growth in the least stagnant section of the country...
...Pius XII delivered, on the same day, to all the parish priests of Rome-whose bishop he is. Speaking of "our times, in which religious ignorance is profound and full of peril," the Holy Father told his priests to bestir themselves, pay less attention to administrative duties, more to preaching. Said he: "Preach with simplicity, aiming at that practical sense which comes to the mind and guides the spirit. It is not scintillating and learned fluency that conquers souls, especially today, but rather the word of conviction that comes from the heart and goes to the heart...
...based, not on material grounds, but squarely and fully on spiritual values. These ministers are men of God, and they say God tells them that the Allies are fighting a righteous war. They have taken their stand solemnly, and we may assume that they will stand by it, and preach for it, and defend it in the same spirit with which they uphold the most basic belief of their religious faith the very existence of God. But how likely is it that they will...