Harry Emerson Fosdick: Man of God in Conflict and Calm

larry amerson fast a man of god and conflict and can for close to two decades from october first nineteen thirty when the first service was held in the newly completed riverside church until may nineteen forty six for a retired as senior minister at the pulpit and that church was the locus of what is widely recognized as the most influential preaching ministry in the united states in the current century someday but someday crosses probably wouldn't drink from every section of metropolitan new york but from every corner of the nation and distant part of the world overflowing its cathedral like sanctuary in chapel and auditoriums killing every room in which the cities could be amplified sunday after sunday following an uplifting service of worship a shortstop a dynamic figure ruddy cheeked crown by which the graying hair that orbit and we're strong resonant voice

with an arresting the rain and almost miss america miami last fall on the discourse or which ought to be duty waiting and which held every listener in america benjamin the victim so writes henry pitney venues and concerning the ministry of harry emerson varsity you may well ask what makes this single preachers all famous for their have another great creatures in american history names like glycol moody phillips looks and jonathan edwards on the line perhaps you are part of a generation that has grown up since that day when in the words of the chicago sun times not of isaac moved across the religious backdrop of this country like a giant perhaps therefore we need to be reminded of the unique place that every emerson cause it occupies not only in the memory of those who recall his ministry and were touched by it but also in the religious life of america during the first half of the century dr vas it was born on may

twenty four the eighteen seventy eight in buffalo new york it is ever go to realize the changes that have come over this country since then at the time of his birth there were only fifty million people in the united states and forty million of those live on farms that because it recalls the america of his boyhood in these words it's true that i've lived through a lightbulb day for one of the most fascinating years in history and i'd had a fairly good feet in the bleachers to observe some of the amazing spectacle know i must be an orlando when i know the sort of thing i can remember i recall be i hadn't done with white carrying an amazing variety of awful lot of whom oliver wood thought i remember the beginnings of white people and i remember the days before

on a deserted clothes wine and fine time even the main street of the village were actually three month change recollection friday memory as i think of those although they lack sidewalks what mandiant outside at data back of your identity both are three man fire moved to follow them what the screeners codes of honor and i can almost believe the story that when the hotel in buffalo for the first time in history offered every get the idea that one that had been brought home the bathroom is so wonderful that i can hardly wait till saturday night that was the america larry amerson politics you an amount of small villages graceful tree lined streets it was in america where the family unit was all important that because it has given credit to his

boyhood home as the greatest force shaving his life i have a beautiful home where religion was re i must confess however that when the migrant evangelists came and heated up the fires of hell and status with them i was well from whether it was the good or the ugly sides of religion i always was concerned neither young far stick or anyone else for that matter realize at that time where his growing concern for religion would lead that he led eventually to the christian ministry in general and the baptist ministry in particular was not without pitfalls and problems well i had a heavy stubble without in the midst of my colleague course but in the end i came through one doubted my doubts and i believed in god and wanted to make a contribution to the spiritual life of my generation so i headed for the month larry amerson wasik upon graduation from colgate university and after year at the old colgate seminary now colgate

rochester divinity school came to new york and ended union theological seminary despite a severe nervous breakdown at the end of his first year young for the grain the best for the union theological seminary of the day which seeks to educate students for the ministry from those three quarters sobering prove it and unlike experience from union seminary he went to the first baptist church of montclair new jersey where he served for eleven years my memories of the long term and they're very satisfying thing for the regret at my own shortcomings in the state my congregation sustaining with landowners for which i am endlessly great i've seen many young manager's omar ph by the first ferry that irreparable harm was done i was fourteen cause

they had not gone to montclair alone he writes in his autobiography that on a friday evening he had not a girl her name was far as whitney and on sunday i wrote my mother that i had found the girl i was going to marry a girl herself he notes did not know about this preset button passion as soon as my mother did that issue did not soon suspected she must've been blind they were married just prior to harry politics venture as a pastor montclair as his boyhood home was important to him so was the home over which he presided what it all might have been thin the things we thought we are work together i cannot even tried to express what i cannot imagine my life without but montclair harry anderson far as it went on to become pastor of the first presbyterian church at fifth avenue and while street in europe jerry and churches downtown that we're uniting and they're ministers were retiring because of age and they asked me a dime for for sunday's pre job

endure i had no idea they were thinking of me and i don't believe they really were what they did ask me to become an honest i said i couldn't because i had no reason to change my nomination of affiliation nevertheless they they called me and i became guest preacher in one of the alderman has to dr alexander took the facts straight and so began the stakes of the most exciting challenging unhappy years of my life well i read his sermon on shell of fundamentalist when in those days there were there had a controversy on many people were having difficulty reconciling christian faith with modern science and many thought that they could not be reconciled and so they accused the line liberal over or destroying the christian faith instead of trying to have to say that's an old story in all its its past history with a tune mom was terrific right that was indeed terrific as documentaries and reminds tharpe was to lose the arctic the butt

of a russian attack by the conservative presbyterian as they were known then as fundamentalists who sought to oust him from the church were insisting that he give up his ministry him about that nomination have deployed or ministry of a character and he was unwilling to do this before retired from a visiting teacher should respect her church fundamentalists have to have an alternative object of their attack and i happened to be that person so that i'm a rather had to play those rhythms the presidency of new york the governing body for all presbyterian churches in the city was at that time dominated by an extremely conservative element which held that in order to be a question one must believe every single word of the bible to be a divinely

inspired such a position is known as fundamentalism and the controversy between doctor thaws again the general assembly the final court of appeal in the presbyterian church has gone down in history as the fundamentalists controversy dubbed of our six viewers were that one must not leave his brains at the church door on sunday morning that believe in the pre scientific worldview of the bible was not the only way to encounter the god of the bible enjoy one did not have to believe in the credibility of genesis and the and ability of jonah in order to be a question reinhold niebuhr now professor emeritus at union seminary and a longtime friend of the classics says that is greatest contribution has been to win the battle between obscure rent isn't an intelligent they we asked dr dave you're more about that you talked a moment ago about fossett really fighting the battle between fundamentalist lobster aunt is among the one hand and biblical criticism on the other but since then there's been a whole

generation that has grown up it really does not appreciate that struggle it says right right this administration what was the situation before the bat well the situation was that was is an australian citizen which we sell a review and say this is the pod protestantism that has not been hurt not in accord with the mainstream someone torture memos is no so the late and then he gave them cruz's <unk> cruz is going to try and a make and to make it clear that you don't have to be an option and it's an essay

history has vindicated area muslim politics fight to maintain an intelligent faith against all would demand blind conformity but it was not until cause it was forced to give up his corporate at first presbyterian church not that first presbyterian wanted him out like the contrary he was urged to stay but by this time the controversy had reached such proportions that in his letter of resignation that of isaac said my disinclination to become a presbyterian minister is not at all due to denominational reasons the proposal of the general assembly calls for a definite credo subscription asylum assumption of ours in terms of the westminster confession and answer to this proposal i must set by longstanding an issue of conviction that credo subscription to ancient confessions of faith is a practice danger is to the welfare of the church and to the integrity of the individual conscience let me add also that

this general and longstanding attitude toward cable subscription is necessarily heightened by the particular situation in which i find myself in theology i all opinions which hundreds of presbyterian minister told i am an evangelical christian but after two years of him of attacks personal attacks on powerful section of the presbyterian church i face now an official proposal which calls on me to make a theological subscription or else leave an influential pulpit any subscription made under such circumstances would be moral surrender i am entirely willing that my theology the question i am entirely unwilling to give any occasion for the questioning of my ethics the new york world commenting on top of our six resignation from first presbyterian wrote in an editorial of november twenty fourth nineteen twenty four one more can be expressed without impertinence that dr vas it may prove mistaken in saying i shall not continue to preach

after march first and settlers measured an unusual intensity the scenes and down with a capacity for preaching and teaching with what is known as the call there is no lack of years visiting a lack of a roof for dr vas duke's head of a platform for him to stand up on upright and welcome alterman a prophecy it was not long before harry anderson cause it that john d rockefeller jr a layman all the park avenue baptist church has the rockefellers proposal came as a shock to the doctor thaws in what he considers exceeding dr cornelius wolfe and who's retirement was imminent as pastor of a park avenue church with candor dr vas it replied no because you are too wealthy and i don't want to be known as the pastor of the richest men in the country then silence followed and that was the rockefellers then i like your frankness that is a more people criticize you on account of my well that will criticize me on account of your theology they sell

to clear an area was invited to require that several other conditions the map the voice in the pastor of park avenue baptist church elimination of all sectarian restrictions on membership thus opening the church to all christians on equal terms a visitor ministers of other denominations to serve on the staff at erection of a new building that would allow wider ministry to the city to everyone's surprise these conditions were met and the riverside church which today just as high on a hill in mourning side heights came into being this is rockefeller recalls that during your long and increasingly close enough to just be grateful for that was then they know has been innovating owns and affection and one time his line was based upon the highest esteem and personal regard then it was my good fortune to have kid friendly relationship lloyd

decade omar will remain when the map there is the most amazing experiences economists would often rely on to get and many of that the politics is my only as iconic in his hand underscoring happy tooth and making modern no no effect and one of the only all were very very helpful men it is and olive and then warm and then again when i came to know that and this is the state where old facts the plans for the new building were drawn up in nineteen twenty six but fiat hectic years passed before the church was dedicated many have asked why the mornings i'd heights area was chosen the major reason was that for money box alone there was no adequate

protestant courage to serve those living in the neighborhood also kites provide a cultural setting unique not only in new york city but in the nation within close proximity were located the union theological seminary the jewish theological seminary of america columbia university teacher's college and the juilliard school of music perhaps only the acropolis of ancient athens can stand beside morning side heights more richness in learning the opening of the riverside church not only gave harry emerson caused a roof over his head and a platform for him to stand up on ibrahim into prominence as a hymn writer perhaps his best known him is god of grace and got of glory written for the formal dedication of the church on february eighth nineteen thirty one there it's

both it's b from the day of its formal dedication the church has attempted to live up to the charge given by dr foskett to the congregation still housed in the old park avenue edifice you know he said it could be weakened for us to have that new church with it whether or not is going to be wicked depends on what we do with it we must justify the possession of that magnificent equipment by the service that comes out of that if we do not it will be wicked it's all over the world at home and abroad whenever the kingdom of god is hardly stead the support of his church should be felt and like an incoming tide many an

estuary of human need should feel its contribution flowing in that would be wonderful if young men and women coming to their church should have eyes is experience seeing the lord high and lifted up his train filling the temple and if they should discover their their divine location whom shall i send and who will go for us and i should answer here am i send me that would be wonderful if however in that new temple we simply sit together in heavenly places that will not be wonderful but we also work together in on heavenly places that will be harry anderson fossett preaching over the next decade and a half held many people see the vision of isaiah perhaps no preacher in american history attain the influence that he earned dr henry henderson says in no small measure this influence was there or was the food of unremitting self discipline and the habits of where exactly made them

and rigorously negative sixteen hours with the normal allowance for preparation and he said this role off the standards of prayer just before in our nation's cities that we had which he would reach the republican party of twenty eight minutes would be an excessive a lot of the sermon stopwatch timing revealed that the cement included within thirty seconds of the self imposed in part the secret play in a mysterious get a witch doctor thought it was aware but which escaped the attention of others not once but repeatedly he speaks of clairvoyance into the problems of individuals he himself withdrew the effectiveness of his preaching to one other factor which really important with him over the years the grounding of his sermons directly and problems and perplexes supposed to him in for small

cars the on all these records that the basic intangibles like dedication to christ's ministry through his trip that's because it had a global in snugly into the problems of individuals but into the problems of people collectively listen to this excerpt of the sermon preached on october thirteenth nineteen forty about hitler was then marching on check through europe and the sermon was titled god talks to a dictator and the earthquake it is they'll thought god using that camper either just punishment on june beyond laureates and paul as syria and the rampart line anger that was a red boat named for the profit that have to say to his own people what he said he was like a plate owes psychiatrist dealing with

one of us when we made it out with indignation against someone who's so it seems blasted romney why the psychiatrist says wait a moment that was your own boat you've brought back on yourself so it says walter the people they stop heard that guided at sad because they are my grandson last week and see that truth about ourselves today i'm flora reed mats the major meaning of archetype the day and the only hope of a worthwhile outcome we brought their thought that are paying off on our phone in all his preaching area muslim politics are clearly that there could be no healing without judgment know gospel without mole and as that sermon excerpt of the

states it was not going to let his listeners off easy by saying that the war was all of all of germany was it became a pacifist and in those he disagreed with his close friend of rhino label of course he does i was so disillusioned so for a short course we were safe and not pursue the accuser used to buzz explore whether by latino vote has been in the war and i was an asinine you and gene simmons i must say that you respect for john lewis says that isn't normally

so he was the objective person for issues i say the us is using passages from religious persecution for the patients would just say that we're going to cite a poll and mr norton he was vague slowly toward letting him on august seventh nineteen forty they give an address or the cbs radio network in

which he severely questioned the government's policy of military conscription he wrote i think a real crisis confronts the station in a time when we are not at war and when an overwhelming majority of the american people are determined not to go to war we are being rushed pell mell into military conscription as a subtle national policy this kitchen is the essence of regimented totalitarian militaristic autocracy let us be honest about this under some circumstances conscription is necessary but it can never rightly be called democratic and yet when war came this testing as it was deliberate was that he never abandon his concern as a pastor for those caught in its those the title of one of his wartime sermons putting christ in uniform and listen to this excerpt from one of his wartime prayers management they revolve before the audit

bureau thing that we have gone through you and as in all of the nation may be wrong on gripping a hand upon the young manhood of our people we've made for ourselves and our nation and for them or like or those who willingly and through the national command and for those who can be anxious they must re you with the farting war we pray every amazon caustic is of course best known for his preaching the superdome which we have noted was his insight into the problems of individuals and his self discipline finally borg adds to this picture of positive as a preacher well you know for one thing who want to reduce political on so no he really was an

artist he had was ceo edmunds the only solo he could deliver his sermon notes with complete so they lived with the poor those flourishes from looters and it was it was an ad for an expanded road with two years or so he was a can he wasn't go into these shows so as i say as a preacher myself a lot of them are full the only agree to launch and far as he has if you

really push the problem now and it's a problem of course he was two months ago i mean the guy had a man trying to be a problem in the ordinary sense of the war at one oh six point seven this is the fm station of the riverside church wypr in new york area most empowers it was a prophet a prominent religious liberalism that moment in america and europe which was in revolt against the old orthodox pattern through the legal mind off at oxy with its insistence upon liberal interpretation of the bible and its refusal to face squarely the findings of the island another scientific advances was heading down a dead end street closely allied with liberal theology was the social gospel the social gospel was an attempt to apply the principles of the new testament particularly the ethics of jesus to all kinds of social problems in america from drinking to prison reform

it was out of this movement that such organizations as the ymca were gone or liberalism had many scholarly exponents dr faust it was its greatest popular spokesman is guide to understanding the bible three thousand strong novelist joyce between biblical literalism on the one hand and it even a called of science all the other and was in part responsible for his difficulties at first presbyterian church in the late nineteen twenties liberalism came under sharp criticism from a new generation of religious thinkers while attending to preserve the liberals passion for social justice and intelligent faith these theologians attack the liberals for what they saw to be they're naive today among these early critics was run a label or who founded liberalism particularly in a socialistic and pacifist a cleaning easy solutions to complex problems dr foster it was among those with whom he omitted really disagree and i know that in an article that you wrote once in the

union summer record review that just prior to your coming to be professor eugene seminary you wrote an article a chiding doctor thaws tick slightly for what you considered at the time his lack of social prophecy but that you later thought better of that article so lumen as a woman who's torso was well this is great he's a preacher

and i and my youthful enthusiasm for trump also on school at the cemetery on until i said the word when he asked the treasury of the first ones to the us is just a richer were in new orleans the interrogation of the mayan world and traditional of my article he said the job for associate me ruin everybody's only got one bottle under his bill and i had a bottle and roll in a row i was curious about that

is that as i got to know him i thought that he was not only a great preacher a great exponent of noble poses millions of fundamentalism and that's about really thought there's no question about that he was a great motivator i think that new license policies as we've seen evidence of the movie i'm online recently because it was a quality more passion and you know the tension in very recent and very resourceful recent story on praise to always want more than we have differences because he was a little

guy would now call my cell phone was so long was only option that the mental condition oh in the fall is a rose is a lesson on the movie previews that was the idea of progress in the effort to believe it was a lot of work and it was and so i almost all groups and was called deal with these differences if i'm alone neighbors attack upon the liberals as mullen the years have made him somewhat critical of the current theological climate and more appreciative of harry anderson finds that type of

liberalism well here's an orca were too quick in case i really want now i look at the younger generation take those and went to theological difference in nice and even reluctantly being something but i don't think there's too much focus on his generation's generation religious climate both makes and is made by the teaching of theology at emerson far state teachers shape the religious climate of an era he had this big chest long term mortgages you know as you were wally was a professor who somebody had these two jobs then you know which was

the location was the allegation was it was a very disciplined early or going to a clock in say the company had his first solo comp forces and the game is actually six and everything was this was bloodier had this class lieutenant about it as many people would ever have ten thousand views on a priest who trample on friday morning i'll show cause of the full on number one one boy this is the incident that we just went through was the work that he pitch sermon on friday morning in the chapel a pace of the subsequent sunday already was great

minister businessman ministry and this boy a nice young man and managers who love rome without a person should listen to pause its own and boy it plays rosen they came back on monday and he was full of woe be about this he said one of his long island farmers had sent him one of the thing bursts are you and all the flaws they have the same idea i should have thought that you would have gotten from him except that he preached at the action new pursuit of money dr van heusen became president of union seminary the year that very emerson fossett retired before that time all other than talk

together at union there and isn't as president of union theological seminary you are probably in a better position than anyone else to assess dr foskett contribution to this institution over the many years that he taught here how would you begin to assess his contribution to union summer it and so we wish to emphasize in the quest for the top number of course is one in which was bought most widely attended course in the seminary and that day it was under that title i think certainly it and bollywood hero which was subsequently published in his one of his greatest works the modern use of the lot and not only did every seminary student take it but the largest classroom of the seminary has crowded with deserters of auditors who has pretty common that we also talk courses in in preaching with her really practice preaching with the

students preached sermons for him our memos vividly we have four super loot preachers preaching what we call home or weddings in those days but there he was bought by frankly most valued by the students he also taught courses in the exit jesus certain books of the bible particularly jeremiah and the old testament and hebrews in the new these were really courses on what might be called the preaching use revival former students about their foster carter they found in pockets all around the nation and his name is still revered by the mall one such google is the reverend mr schatz of the lafayette avenue methodist church in syracuse new york dr foster it was not only the master preacher of my student days but he was a master at teacher i would be preachers no one could go to one of his classes on

preaching without feeling that preaching was an exciting adventure and a most demanding discipline that your basic principles he taught us have stood the test of time and experience when one man who taught homiletic set union thirty five years ago with us gentlemen what is the most important part of a sermon we were ready and we responded in unison why the text of course and i would please his crotch heart but when the device because the same question we would answer why the people of course now both professors were right there opposed harbor was radically different doctor thaws day consisted of a sermon must start with people where the people are with their needs their problems with their broken open lines

if you do not strike oil in ten minutes you would say you'd better stop boring people must get the notion and quickly that you are with them otherwise they will not be with you for a very long by this approach dr vas that made the bible come alive the vital to him was not encyclopedia printed texts it was god's answer demands need there was this constant dialogue going on between god in his lung and man in his rebellion he taught us that preaching must never bypass the bible rather it must allow the bible to speak but the bible can speak only to those who are prepared to hear and hearing means becoming aware of the questions for words the bible has the answer the person and one priest in the plastics class was a terrifying experience and i can

vouch for this from personal experience it was bad enough to have to face in one's own classmates but to preach before harry anderson plastic he would give the class the first opportunity to criticize the sermon and your friends would turn to act like a pack of families will end when there seemed to be nothing left but if isaac would show how much they have overlooked he never softened his judgments yet there was always a healing quality in them suppose you'd say suppose you had done it this way suppose you had taken this approach or do you remember this illustration and he would quickly open up and imagine the possibilities instead of feeling rejected and discouraged the

fledgling creature was going up he was still ashamed of his feeble effort but you know that the possibility of something good was there and he felt that he really did want to preach it was this ability to inspire and to communicate enthusiasm that made out of plastic not only a great preacher but a great teacher larry ellison caused it the preacher the defender of intelligent christianity the teacher was also fostered the planner and leader or public worship are exiles although we wound former student of politics and now henry sloane coffin professor a practical theology at union seminary assesses the plastic contribution in that area i vote my block caustic as a person tremendously skilled in the conduct of public worship and those are persons killed in the preparation offered a public

prayer you see this in many ways perhaps most of all in india offering a public prayer in the worship of the church is where you see it come to focus people read his sermons they cherish and sermons but to his prayers are hardly less precious he grabs his best known in this field for his book and time of the problem of public prayers there he says the leading a coalition prayer is a work of art good manners experts skeel painstaking preparation he says that hardly anything so cries to be a clergyman so sets a way so most urgent task as the preparation of prayer and in this i would agree you have to sweat this real

prayer comes costly and painful and this is evident in their is wrong and he was a scholar in terms of his knowledge of the classic prayers of the church to poison that for just a moment he could write his own prayer is masterfully but i suspect that he only be able to became able to do that because he had first emerged as ma and unsaturated his spirit in the classic devotion of the church one of the finest examples of harry emerson paused its genius as a writer of prayers is found in the litany of the cross spoken in every communion service of the riverside church we heard led by the reverend thomas taylor walker oh god of grace and glory we acknowledge before they are undeniable indebtedness we're other children of sacrifice our choices then addictions have been bought with the price of other blood and tears an hour you

given us any more oil than a day on or all saints and martyrs prophets and apostles for all soldiers of the common good was a game spawn of consequence and fell on sleep and ashamed of whom the world was not where they these or the cross of christ and his

exceeding better sacrifice for the truce which there were brought to light allow unbounded which there was really given and the costly salvation which they are visited by people these on the trail and is trying by the humiliation of his people's fight the mockery of his thorny crown and the bitterness of staging by the anguish of his cross by his unfailing play in b and love the man these

we we who are spiritual blessings to celebrate a cloud of witnesses who have suffered before us enterprise was cross is our peace walk as becomes those two identities to thy grace rude manner of even replanting hour is on from neglect of blessings daily purchase from selfish use of opportunity a spa which good men died from growing within our hearts the venomous

rants and covetousness from tampering ourselves with a instabilities and from oh a spendthrift wasting of our past the heritage these we beseech thee with gratitude and fidelity you know just to the service of mankind with more courageous deal for a us from the detaining reluctance about the year of selfishness and i'm really and this author of remembrance day we you know christ joined a fresh the honorable company of thy true simmons leans sacrificial living shannon fellowship of crows

long on yeah osce teams announced soon yeah or teaching writing preaching these professions mastered by one man with adult is alive and dorothy dublin noise that if isaac secretary for most of his active ministry we ask his employees how long have you been associated with that thirty six year and let's see if you have been within thirty six years you came within what they followed nineteen september nineteen twenty seven i was just before the riverside

church was built yes they laid a cornerstone that fall november so that he was at union seminarian that park avenue baptist minister is where did you do most of your work for him he had an office at a union seminary was the nature of your work with dr foskett when i first went with him i was assistant to his secretary end up for several years assistant to the secretary she retired in now see the nineteen thirty nine or nineteen forty i can't recall what was it like to work for dark refers to one's very interesting job sometimes pretty hectic we never knew what was coming up next the morning they'll bring

players from all over the world and and on all subjects to be a large volume of mail us the radio a program brought in the mail what did he begin his radio ministry at broadcast pretty regularly after a nineteen or twenty six he had done some before that si se going through the records and he broadcast from his office on the eighteenth floor in all your association with dr foskett what would you say was the most interesting moment of your experience with him i remember that we used to get some very peculiar telephone calls sometimes one man living over in flushing used to call us up periodically and as part of our state to have the church stopped the voices that were coming to him from our power

in nineteen forty six jerry emerson bostic retired from the riverside church and from unions seminary declaring that the retirement rules he had established were church employees must also applauded him he has been followed in the public by dr robert j mccracken was direct preaching during the last seventeen years it's familiar the world over dr hardy emerson first it belongs to the entire christian one over and over again he has been spoken of as the outstanding pre check of the first half of the twentieth century to degree that would be difficult to lower estimate his influence has reached far and wide but we eat at riverside played him as our own

it was from our pulpit that he preached it was from the eighteenth floor it cost to the nation it was what it was going to stay here that he just wished directed and stimulate of the city of man and woman or owned the world area most of us that occupy into one of america's most significant pockets the man who more than anyone else made vital christianity relevant to modern man the teacher of hundreds of our finest preachers and a profound force to shape our religious life and thought this is the man we honor today to know generations have followed his lead

perhaps this excerpt from one of his sermons will help explain why i want to review some of the sturm und fiat me here are counting wealthy are individual life private these rubber what you are great and they particularly mean you i find myself increasingly impressed with the bait note that while a lot of our liberal keith yandle uncommon way we believe in god in general we are caught the spiritual life in general we think there might be something in prayer in general i mean in the church in general and then but why do both a brain for your picture in jail longtime made income growth event

and our religion the kumquat being very of harvard called leg lamp on man mark that didn't even know that one good from crime to take the law marvin gaye like he will open minded man a pride in the every five have a map or without weapon that they committing one fell twenty one nice nice nice home a biography and some are used by riverside radio w on

the fm station of the riverside church in the city of new york repaired and written and william brooks oh oh oh oh yeah it's b