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...experiment was conceived at the beginning of the term in order to test the claims of Reverend Franklin W. Loehr of Los Angeles, whose book, The Power of Prayer on Plants, has enjoyed popular success among not-too-green-thumbed housewives...
Although the Reverend Kenneth F. W. Prior calls his preaching evangelism, the quiet religious spirit of this witty Englishman is far removed from the frantic dogmatism of Bible Belt fundamentalism. Visiting for a week under the auspices of the Harvard Christian Fellowship, he is not trying to gain 'converts' but rather to stir apathetic students to inquire into their religious-or atheistic-beliefs. He feels American and British "come from the same stock and tend to be slow-moving," and thinks they need prodding...
...rustled with rumors about Dr. Fisher's successor, chosen by the Prime Minister and appointed by the Queen. After two days came the word: the new Primate of All England, leader of 40 million Anglicans, religious mentor to the royal family and to Parliament, will be the Most Reverend and Right Honorable Arthur Michael Ramsey, 56, the Archbishop of York...
...same anonymous donor who in 1958 endowed the University's first Professor ship in World Religions (now held by the Reverend Robert H. L. Slater) provided funds for the Center...
...scene Germaine is. of course, elegantly allowing herself to be seduced. But she has longer-range interests of a similar nature, and they involve another man. The situation invites triteness; he is the minister of the local church-a hulking, clumsy, God-obsessed man. But Pastor Guymer is no Reverend Davidson, and in the end it is not his suicide that closes the book. The unbending wrath of the Old Testament fills Guymer, and he calls down the vengeance of the God he loves upon the parishioners he despises. Germaine listens with a musician's delighted...