Word: clergyman
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What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: he gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell. It is a business almost indistinguishable from that of a seller of snake-oil for rheumatism. As for a lawyer, he is simply, under our cash-register civilization, one who teaches scoundrels how to commit their swindles without too much risk. As for a physician, he is one who spends his whole life trying to prolong the lives of persons whose deaths, in nine cases out of ten, would be a public...
Stephen Desmonde, son of a well-off Anglican clergyman, has all the cherished stigmata of the True Artist-a "slight figure and sensitive face, dark eyes and delicate pallor," and at every crisis he coughs blood. His father is appalled when Stephen insists he Wants To Paint. "To throw away your brilliant prospects, wreck your whole career, for a mere whim," he wails. Stephen is adamant: "The only thing that mattered was this creative instinct that burned within him." He Renounces All, including the love of the neighboring squire's daughter, a girl with an "air of quiet composure...
...door was hastily slammed. when Mr. Kellogg returned the next day, a number of people giggled at him. Later, he discovered that the Wigglesworth at him. Later, he discovered that the Wigglesworth man had been told that a sailor would appear at his door, dressed as a clergyman...
...real, and so are most of the activities around which Menen builds this rococo piece of history told "in the form of a novel." The Rev. Henry James Prince (who takes the scabrous Bunt under his wing and is the principal character) was a flesh-and-blood renegade clergyman. In the 18403 Prince founded his own religion. With the fortunes of his followers he purchased an estate in Somerset, named it Agapemone (Abode of Love), and moved in with about 60 "brothers" and "sisters." The Abode featured a church with stained-glass windows, but which differed from most churches...
...week. Most ministers were like Layman Bryant-troubled. But they found other things to talk about than the problem that plagued Bryant. Most of the vocal few were vocal on the side of the lily-white banner of segregation; Citizens' Council rallies could usually count on some Protestant clergyman to bless their gatherings. The Rev. Earl Anderson, for instance, 63-year-old pastor of Dallas' Munger Place Baptist Church, insisted that: "Now is the time for Citizens' Councils to put pressure on your preacher." And he propounded eight "reasons why it is not Christian" to invite Negroes...