Word: preacher
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...William Lloyd Garrison was the son of a hard-drinking sailor, Wendell Phillips the son of a rich Boston lawyer. Garrison had picked up scraps of knowledge as a printer's devil, Phillips had been a Harvard dandy. Garrison wore the solemn look of a New England preacher, Phillips sported the manners of a worldly sophisticate...
Moving with relaxed urbanity through a round of activity that would faze most captains of industry, busy Preacher Sockman likes to paraphrase Finley Peter Dunne's Mr. Dooley: "It is my business to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Walter Arthur Maier, 56, hard-driving Lutheran teacher (Concordia Theological Seminary) and preacher, whose sternly fundamentalist radio sermons (The Lutheran Hour), begun in 1935, reached an audience of millions in 36 languages through 1,200 stations; of a coronary thrombosis; in St. Louis...
...congregation. "These last few weeks," he said, "have been the most difficult of my life . . . The threat of dirty methods has not been an important factor in my final decision. From rather good authority, I have been informed that whispering campaigns were already being planned, such as: 'society preacher,' 'gambling preacher,' and, worst of all, 'the reason he and Mrs. Alexander adopted that little baby girl was because he is the father.' I don't know how the human mind goes...
...leaves them to catch up with Lizzie's latest doings, The Peabody Sisters begins to hum with good works and intellectual vibrations. Liz was a prodigious worker who was seldom paid for her effort. For a time, she was William Ellery Channing's secretary, but the great preacher apparently never thought to pay her except in inspiration. The Dial, which she published and Emerson edited, was a financial flop. Her Boston bookstore was for years the meeting place of the literary greats of the day, but book sales were most discouraging...