Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Victor Deckx, he had listened politely enough when a white-robed monk came to the church recently to preach a mission against the ungodly superstitions present in Witgoor; but when it came time to pass the plate, Victor had pointedly ignored Martha Minnen's outstretched offering. Soon afterward Martha's children came home from school complaining that no one would play with a witch's kids. That was when Martha decided...
...Milton G. Henschel, one of its top directors: "For years our missionaries have been persecuted wherever there were dictators . . . Our people were among the first thrown into Hitler concentration camps. We are confident that Almighty God will protect our people wherever they are, and that they will continue to preach the Gospel...
...G.O.P. National Chairman Guy George Gabrielson. Passing over the fact that RFC's loan to Hydrocol was more than matched by $21.5 million in new private capital, Capehart snapped: "I don't care whether the name is Smith, Jones or Gabrielson. They ought to practice what they preach. Do they believe in the free enterprise system? Or do they believe in Government control and interference...
...Jesus offered His listeners neither any political advice nor any social advice for the reorganization of society as such. Said Wriston: "In His day there were all the social inequalities and inequities of our day-and others besides. The reason He did not preach about social problems was that He was not fundamentally concerned about social machinery, but with the central meaning of life ... He did not preach the abolition of castes, but He moved across these sharply drawn lines as though they were not there; to Jesus the individual was everything, his social status of no account whatever...
...Buddhist monk may not preach until the congregation asks him to. He usually asks that they gain bunya by agreeing (for one day, not for life) to obey five commandments: 1) thou shalt not kill anything, not even the mosquito that bites you, 2) nor steal, 3) nor lie, 4) nor commit adultery, 5) nor take intoxicating drinks. Many Siamese strike a balance between bunya and bapa by agreeing to observe commandments 4 and 5 only on alternate days...