Word: jeffersons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles E. Jefferson has said that it took him 25 years to master the important detail of "pulpit technique," which, in the recent poll conducted by the Christian Century, caused him to be listed among the 25 most able U. S. preachers. This technique consists of a manner as far removed from oratory as it is from the garbled sensationalism of street corner evangelists. Dr. Jefferson speaks to his large audiences quietly, in the tone of courteous, dignified, lucid and friendly conversation. He does so in the Broadway Tabernacle, Manhattan, a church situated on the boundary of that bright, dangerous...
Last week the trustees of the Broadway Tabernacle offered to increase by $2,500 Dr. Jefferson's yearly salary of $10,000, thereby making him the highest paid U. S. Congregationalist minister.? At the annual church dinner, the Rev. Dr. Charles Edward Jefferson, whose ability is the result of many years of intelligent effort, refused to have his salary raised. Said he: ". . . My needs are simple and the present salary is enough to care for them despite the increased cost of living during 30 years. I have never wanted more than a Ford...
Those who found this explanation difficult to understand would have been able to enlighten themselves by perusing the current issue of the Christian Century, wherein Dr. Jefferson discoursed on "Why I Have Found Life Worth Living." Said he: "I came into the world with an indestructible liking for work. This impulse in me to work shows no signs of abating. I have always loved work more than play. ... It is only when I am tremendously busy that my happiness mounts to rapture. And so when I look forward to heaven, it is to me a place of work...
...wasn't so very long ago that a certain actor wandered about New York City looking for a clergyman who would consent to honor Joseph Jefferson, the Rip Van Winkle of a thousand stage productions, with the funeral rites of the Church. In at least two large cities of the East, there is no baseball played on Sunday, because the people remember the Fourth Commandment. In some places small loys still scatter and leave their marbles when the village parson walks down the street on Sunday afternoon...
...Both men and women are subject to stomach trouble, fevers, apoplexy. They have a profile suggestive of a sheep. Under this sign were born James Thomas Heflin, Andrew William Mellon, James Branch Cabell, Mary Pickford, Charles Spencer Chaplin, Constance Talmadge, Charles Evans Hughes, the late John Pierpont Morgan, Thomas Jefferson, Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck...