Word: sermonized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Roberts begins his revival meetings by warming up the audience with a session of lively hymn singing, then launches into a hellfire sermon, storming up and down the platform with microphone in hand. When he finally asks the unsaved to come forward, hundreds troop down the aisles past the shiny aluminum tent-poles. During the service Roberts also asks for contributions, which may average $2,000 for an audience...
...just begun the first of six announced sermons on "Christianity and Communism" when Canterbury Cathedral's 100 loudspeakers began emitting earsplitting squeals. Said the Dean: "I think there must be an enemy here." (Technicians later found that somebody had tampered with the public-address system.) Then he turned off the mike, launched into a sermon that his congregation found even more earsplitting...
...defect in the public-address system caused a buzzing that made it difficult to hear parts of Billy's sermon. But when he called for "decisions for Christ," 623 Frenchmen-young and old, shabby and well-dressed-shuffled down the aisle while a mixed choir of 500 sang softly and Billy waited with folded arms...
...eyes of those who came forward tonight than I have ever seen before." Leaky Roof. Most French newspapers praised Billy's sincerity but were unwilling to take him seriously. France-Soir termed him "Heaven's publicity man," roguishly claimed that the audience had "understood neither his sermon in English nor the translation . . . The messenger of Christ . . . has given himself five days to convert Paris. He has four left to fix his microphones." Paris Presse said Billy was "as well organized as a businessman, as diplomatic as a Jesuit and apparently as pacific as a field of wheat." Only...
...Hayes, James K. Polk, William McKinley, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman) occasionally worshiped there; Franklin Roosevelt and Sir Winston Churchill went there on Christmas Day in 1941 to pray. Last week Foundry's pastor for the past 31 years, silver-thatched Dr. Frederick Brown Harris, preached his farewell sermon. At the compulsory retirement age of 72, well-loved Dr. Harris was leaving Foundry to give more time to his other job-chaplain of the U.S. Senate...