Religion: Dynamo in the Vineyard

Nowadays, it is smart to be spiritually alive. It is old-fogyism to be ignorant of that happiness-producing transformation which people everywhere are enjoying at this time.

Above the spray of white gladioli appeared the plump, beaming face of the pastor, the smile serving as a minor sun to the shining flowers. For a moment he stood silently, "just loving the audience," as he once put it. Then the Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale began to preach. He had preached the same theme many times before, not only from the pulpit but at countless business-club...

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