mlts-us-7023-obj0002_008

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Mlts-us-7023-obj0002_008. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/mls_hallman/id/29.

mlts-us-7023-obj0002_008. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/mls_hallman/id/29.

Mlts-Us-7023-Obj0002_008. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/mls_hallman/id/29.

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Page 7 SECOND READING from "The Trouble with Sermons" by Harry Levinson During the Boer War, Winston Churchill attended a church parade. Five thousand men who had faced death the previous week and were soon to do it again were assembled around their leader. "It was one of those occasions," he wrote, "when a fine preacher might have given comfort and strength where both were sorely needed, and have printed on many minds a permanent impression. The bridegroom Opportunity had come. But the church had her lamp untrimmed. A Chaplain with a raucous voice discoursed on the details of "the Seige and Surrender of Jericho" The soldiers froze into apathy, and after a while the formal perfunctory service reached its welcome conclusion.

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