Word: norrisism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Doom's Day apostle of righteousness likewise entertained the soldiers, during the War, with his wrathful denunciations of the Y. M. C. A. for abetting the evil practice of cigarette smoking. Dr. Norris, incorrigible, escorted Chipps to the door.
Then again, in No-Ape Tennessee, Heretic John T. Scopes hearkened to alarming cries of Gospel-Truth Norris, winced under the hyperorthodoxy of the Baptist tsar from Texas. Mr. Chipps, according to Dr. Norris and his disciple, L. H. Nutt, refused to leave the parson's premises.
Baptist Norris with prodigious ire blasted the Modernists some time ago with a sentence, in scareheads on his Fundamentalist-Baptist Searchlight: "Judas Iscariot, when he betrayed his Lord with 'Hail, Master' on his lips, went and hung himself, but these modern Judases [Liberals] continue to occupy the pulpit...
Ecclesiastic Norris has confidence. His minions have gathered about their shepherd in mesmerized faith. The Sabbath following the murder or manslaughter, he preached to a great audience in the warm First Baptist Church of Fort Worth. He walked uprightly at liberty under a $10,000-bond profferred by his congregation...
Finally Divine Norris rose from behind the pulpit, leaned forward. His text: "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus." (Romans 8.)