1962 Peter Marshall Were You There Chaplain US Senate Sermon Vinyl LP Record VG+

Description: Yes we combine shipping for multiple purchases.Add multiple items to your cart and the combined shipping total will automatically be calculated. 1962 Peter Marshall Were You There Chaplain US Senate Sermon Vinyl LP Record VG+ Record Grade per Goldmine Standard: VG+ Peter Marshall • Former United States Senate ChaplainPeter Marshall originally preached both “WERE YOUTHERE?” and “COMPROMISE IN EGYPT” from the pulpitof the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washing-ton, D. C. However, the recordings reproduced here weremade in Detroit, Michigan, during Lenten Services con-ducted there by Dr. Marshall during the week of March 5-10,1944. Those who recorded the sermons would have beenshocked had they known how soon the living voice wouldbe stilled. Nor could they have guessed the crucial part thosesame recordings would eventually play in taking PeterMarshall’s message around the globe.Toward the beginning of 1954, 20th Century Fox was castingthe leads for the motion picture based on Peter Marshall’slife. The Welshman, Richard Todd, was their first choice forthe male lead. But correspondence and trans-Atlantic tele-phone calls revealed that Mr. Todd was not interested inthe role.Then Samuel G. Engel, the producer, remembered that it hadbeen the hearing of some tapes of Dr. Marshall’s preachingwhich had inspired him to want to dramatize this man’sstory for the screen. He reasoned that the impact of theScottish preacher’s personality through his voice mightwell have as telling an effect on Dick Todd. A tape wastherefore promptly air-mailed to Mr. Todd in London wherehe was completing work on a film. The tape sent was “WereYou There?”Months later Richard Todd told me what happened . . .without much enthusiasm he agreed to listen to the sermonat the end of a day’s shooting. The setting was the usualwarehouse-studio atmosphere—steel beams overhead, cam-eras on cranes, stage sets piled in corners. Out of curiosity,a few cameramen, technicians, wardrobe mistresses, andmake-up people gathered round. Peter Marshall had proba-bly never preached to as strange a congregation in sounlikely a setting.The voice with near-perfect diction and the trace of a Scot-tish burr began with none of the usual introductory sermonicmaterial. Most of those listening were old professionals inthe world of the theatre, a little hardened to emotional con-tent.“Yet”, Mr. Todd told me later, “all of us stood there, sooncaught up in the raw drama of the most momentous publicexecution in history. The last sentence had not died awaybefore I knew that I wanted the role of Peter Marshall,wanted it very much. It challenged me.”The rest is motion picture history. While the film was beingmade, no one in the industry would have predicted that“A Man Called Peter” would be Fox’s most successful boxoffice venture for 1955 both in the United States and abroad.Peter Marshall’s own ideals for the art ofpreaching are the best analysis of his ownpulpit work. “Gentlemen”, he once advisedthe ministerial students of the GettysburgTheological Seminary, “logic will neverprove the spiritual.The problem of the poetthe playwrightthe artistthe prophetand the preacher has always beento make people see.Somehow we must rekindle the im-aginations of our people.Pictorial preaching is a piece of life . . .a film from the world’s bigdrama . . .a newsreel from the Scrip-tures ...”It is interesting that in the same lectureDr. Marshall then illustrated such a Scrip-tural “newsreel” with the word picture ofMoses before Pharoah taken from “Com-promise In Egypt.”But then he went on to say:“The gospel we have to preach is emo-tion at its highest.That is the message our people are hungryfor in their deepest need.For what could be more emotional thanthe idea of a suffering God?How could we speak of the cross withoutemotion?Calvary is the story of a man who tookthings terribly to heart. ..It is the privilege and penalty of thepreacher that he must take the gospelterribly to heart.He must take terribly to heart the thingsthat are happening to our world,and in the lives of his people.If, when you write your sermons, yoiican see the gleaming knuckles ofa clenched fist...the lip that is bitten to keepback tears ...the troubled heart, sufferingbecause it cannot forgive . . .the spirit with no joy becauseit has no love.If you can see the big tears runningdown a mother’s face—If you can see these things—preach to them,preach for them,and get down deep.But whatever you preach, preach onlywhat you believe, and gentlemen,preach it as if you believed it.Preach to reach the hearts of yourpeople.Preach to reach their wills, the springof all their action.Above all, preach to win men andwomen to the way of life Christtaught...”In “WERE YOU THERE?” and “COM-PROMISE IN EGYPT” we can hear thiskind of preaching at Peter Marshall’s best.—Catherine Marshall LP384

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