Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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William Miller, Baptist licentiate, began to preach in 1831 of the Second Advent of The Christ. This was to happen between March 21. 1843, and March 21, 1844. Miscalculation of the Second Coming was the Great Disappointment of Adventists. The date was then advanced first to October 1844, then to some early but indefinite time...
...Plummers Corner, suburb of Auburn. Me., Mrs. Carleton Proctor thought the abandoned Little Methodist Church should be used. She got the key, threw out the church supper dishes, scrubbed the floors, filled the lamps, tidied all things. Then she invited neighbors to hear her preach. During a long sermon she announced: "This is God speaking. He is going to have a clean house here. There are never going to be any more church suppers." The congregation walked...
Believing as he still does that he is God's anointed, the whilom All Highest feels a duty, a pious obligation to preach. Constantly in touch with leading German historians and theologians, he often turns up curious bits of lore. In a recent hearthrug sermon, details of which leaked out last week, the onetime War Lord revealed matter extremely pertinent to the Crucifixion of Jesus which startled his household at Doorn and many another throughout Germany...
...between the forces of sobriety and orderly government on the one hand and the forces of liquor and lawlessness on the other." Dr. Leonard Gaston Broughton (a doctor of medicine as well as of divinity), also of Atlanta, had urged them: to support that "oldtime Baptist spiritual Evangelism to preach the doctrine of sin and salvation, and quicken the backslidden churches and reach the unsaved. . . . Those intellectual, or handpicked, or gumshoe Evangelisms in which some are trying to reflect upon our mass or church revivals, we will oppose...
...Court under the Root formula. As if to offset the victory of Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick in Illinois earlier in the week as a World Court opponent, President Hoover declared: " I have no doubt that the U. S. will become a member of the Court. ... It is easy to preach ... peace. It is easier still to engage in invective or vindictive phrase or slogan which stir national selfishness and self-righteousness...