Word: preach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Punchinello LaGuardia led with his chin again last week, this time got it punched by various assorted clergymen. As the country's Civilian Defense Director, New York City's Mayor asked all pastors, priests and rabbis to preach on religious freedom and democracy next Sunday, enclosed a pretty fair 1,500-word "outline" of the sort of sermon he hoped for. In a nation where Church and State are constitutionally separate, the mere suggestion made numerous ministers mad. Maddest was Editor Charles Clayton Morrison of the arch-isolationist Christian Century...
...This is an unspeakable insult to the clergy of the U.S.," thundered Dr. Morrison. "Who would have imagined that an agency of the American Government would go so far as to tell preachers what to preach . . . [and] guarantee the right kind of preaching by presenting each pastor with a canned sermon and a text of Holy Scripture printed on the label...
...Editor Dark denounced his own established Church of England for living off taxes paid largely by non-members and off income from slum property ("money extracted from the half-fed for . . . bug-infested attics is paid to men whose business it is to preach the Gospel"). The Anglicans, he says, have strong support only from the middle class. "The once crowded slum churches in London . . . are now for the most part almost empty. The fashionable churches are emptier." Only 18% of the population attend any church regularly (U.S. estimate...
...appear, much less be distributed at registration. There is undoubtedly a germ of truth in their accusations. They raise questions which need to be answered. But the spirit that animates their Admonition is alien to the spirit of tolerance. They advocate "accepting a dogma," and they practice what they preach. Harvard can get along without...
...Leon Degrelle left for France, to preach civilization and Rexism. At the border, French gendarmes hustled him off the train...