Texas Gulf Coast Catholic (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, June 18, 1976 Page: 5 of 6
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Friday. June V}, 1975
TEXAS GULF COAST CATHOLIC
Page 5
The flamboyant Mr. Sunday
Billy Sunday
Winning by Losing
[The following whs found in the pocket of a Confederate
soldier who died on a Civil War battlefield: 1
I asked God for strength, that I might achieve;
! was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey.
1 asked for health, that I might do greater things;
I was given infirmity, that I might do better things.
; asked for riches, that I might be happy;
I was given poverty, that I might be wise.
I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men;
I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God.
I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life;
I was given life, that I might enjoy all things.
I got nothing that l asked for-but everything [ had
hoped for;
Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were
answered.
I am among all men, most richly blessed.
A lot of homes are ruined by inferior
desecrators.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
A ten-year-old, riding along the highway with
his parents, remarked, “~,ook at the bull-
boards.”
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One of the most colorful
personalities in American
religious history was an Iowa
farmboy, a self-described
‘Tube of the rubes,” and a
former baseball player named
William Ashley (Billy)
Sunday.-
Born into a family ravaged
by many tragedies, Billy
Sunday first gained promi-
nence in 1883 as an outfielder
for the Chicago White Stock-
ings. When Bible study classes
at the Chicago YMCA aroused
his interest in Christian work,
he quit baseball to become an
assistant secretary at the
YMCA in 1891. Two years later
he took a job as organizer on
the revival team of J. Wilbur
Chapman, v/ho toured only in
the smaller cities of the
nation. Chapman retired to a
Philadelphia pastorate in 1895
and recommended Sunday as
his successor. His debut was
modest but by 1900 he was able
to hire his own successor. His
musician and to require towns
to erect pi aboard tabernacles
for his meetings.
Billy Sunday moved into the
major leagues of the revival
circuit in 1909 when he
conducted a revival in
Spokane. From then on it was
uphill and in 1917, his peak
year, a 10-week campaign in
New York showed a total
attendance of almost a million
and a half.
His success was due in no
small part to his talent for
dramatization and in this he
was similar to the vaudeville
performers of his day. He
contorted his body, smashed
furniture, pounded the
podium, ripped off his clothes.
Film fare
cn
television
THURSDAY, JUNE 24
8:00 p.m. (NBC) — THE
YOUNG SAVAGES (1961) —
Burt Lancaster stars as an
assistant district attorney
assigned to prosecute a trio of
teenage hoodlums in this
routine melodrama, (A-III)
SATURDAY, JUNE 26
8:00 p.m. (NBC) — THE
NELSON AFFAIR (1073) —
An extremely mild historical
drama about the illicit love of
Lord Nelson for Lady
Hamilton, given a con-
siderable lift, however, by
the presence erf Peter Finch,
Glenda Jackson, Anthony
Quayle, Michael Jayston, and
Margaret Leighton. (A-III)
And all this was accompanied
by a torrent of words. What
the church needed, he
shouted, was fighting men of
God, not ”hog-jow!ed, weasel -
eyes, sponge-columned,
mushy-fisted, jelly-spined,
pussyfooting, four-flushing,
Charlotte-russe Christians.”
He would vent his anger
against high society, worldly
immigrants, and especially
“the booze traffic.” Every
man who was not a teetotaler
was a “dirty low-down,
whisky soaked, beer-guzzling,
bull necked, foul-mouthed
nypocrite.” He defined sin
almost solely in terms of
individual moralisrn and
garbled the distinction be-
tween the sin and the sinner in
a way that fostered the
self-righteousness of his
middle-class audiences.
Sunday’s heyday came in
the years before World War I.
When America entered the
war, the nation’s attention
was diverted to less theatrical
concerns and after the way,
the religious ckmate changed
and professional evangelism
suffered a temporary relapse.
(RNS)
Father Frank McDonagh will be this week’s special guest on
the Gulf Coast Catholic. Join us this .Sunday.
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This week’s program (June 20)
GUEST and TOPICS
Our special guest this week will be Father Frank
McDonagh, visiting Corpus Christi from Rome, Italy. He is
Prior of St. Patrick’s Theology House for Irish Augustinian
Seminarians. The topic of discussion with Father McDonagh
will center on “The Holy Year” and the Pope. Our second
topic of discussion will be with Cursillo members, who will be
discussing the Ultreyas in the Corpus Christi area. Be with us
for a very informative half-hour.
AFTERMATH OF FLOOD IN IDAHO
REXBURG, Idaho—This grim scene in Rexburg, Idaho, was repealed several thousand
times as waters recorded In communities struck by a flood caused when the Teton Dam
burst on June 5. Houses were smashed or floated away, and those homes that remained
anchored were left with little usable furniture because of mud pile-ups. Here Sherrel
Forsgren scoops mud /rom his /rontyard while at front door his mother, Mrs. Clarence Hill,
attempts to clear the rubble. At least six persons died and 39,000 persons were left homeless
by the flood. (RNS)
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American Catholicism
NEW YORK (NC) — A documentary exploring the
origins of American Catholicism in the colonial period will be
broadcast as part of CBS’ "Look Up and Live” series at
10,30 a m. EDT Sunday, June 20,
Called “For God’s Honor and Our Neighbors’ Good," the
program will feature Jesuit historian Father James
Hennessey.
Father Hennessey will discuss the beginnings of Jesuit
ministry in Maryland and the significance of Maryland’s
experiment in religious toleration.
The June 20 program was produced by CBS in
cooperation with the Office for Film and Broadcasting of the
U.S, Catholic Conference.
Women Priests?
VATICAN CITY (NC) — The Pontifical Biblical
Commission has voted 12-5 that scriptural grounds alone are
not enough “to exclude (the) possibility” of ordaining
women.
Seventeer members present at a recent plenary session
of the commission agreed unanimously that the New
Testament by itself does rot seem able to "settle in a clear
way and once and for all” whether women can be ordained
priests,
In a third of three votes, the majority of the international
ream of biblical scholars also agreed that, if the Church were
to open up the priesthood to women, it would not be
contradicting Christ’s original intentions. The vote here was
also 12-5.
Only nine priests left
ROME (NC) — Bishop Thomas Nantha of Vjetiane,
capital of Loas, said in a letter that reached here recently
that only nine priests are left in the northern half of Laos to
more than 23,000 Catholics.
Bishop Nantha, in a letter to the Oblates of Mary
Immaculate superior general, Father Fernand Jett, added
that one of the nine has been "deprived of all liberty for
several months now.”
The last of about 100 missionary priests were expalled
from Laos in April. The Oblates of Mary Immaculate in
recent years had as many as 144 priests working in Laos.
First Married Deacon in
Netherlands ordained
LELYSTAD, The Netherlands (NC) — The first married
deacon in the Netherlands, Dirk was ordained here by
Bishop Theodoras Zwartloruis oLHaarlem.
Visser, who is 36 and the father of two children, spent io
years in active pastoral work before requesting ordination as
a deacon.
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full-sized deacon.”
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