Word: preaches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like deism, atheism is an entirely logical postulate. Usually, however, an atheist's faith being a negative one, he is less likely, when its novelty has worn off, than a propagandist for God, to preach it on highway and byway. He has not the exclusively Christian satisfaction of saving a soul. When he takes the offensive, he is in the position of a salesman selling precisely nothing at all. Nonetheless, atheists perhaps feel that their offspring are contaminated by biblical training in public schools, that in other respects they are at a disadvantage in the U. S. community...
...Prohibition unit's work in 1927. Next year's expenses were expected to be heavier. But since its reorganization as a branch of the civil service, the Bureau is more efficient. And, decided the Bureau, were moneys not spent as in the past on buying lecturers to preach, literature to parade and statistics to prove the triumphs of Prohibition, there would be plenty to spread around on straight enforcement. The Treasury Department therefore announced that it would cease to preach, parade and prove; that it would practice only; would ask no increased appropriation...
More men became candidates for the ministry, more deacons enrolled, more elders were appointed. Yet there was a decrease in the number of candidates for the clergy who were licensed to preach, who were ordained; fewer adults, infants were baptized...
...William Thomas Manning, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of New York, en route to the Lausanne World Conference on Faith & Order, paused in Paris last week to preach: "We all love France and admire Paris, but the present issuing of Paris divorces is a scandalous, shameful thing, which should be corrected; and I do not hesitate to say this here in this city, for I know the clergy of France and all God-fearing Frenchmen and Frenchwomen will say the same as strongly as I do. . . . [Trial marriages and other haphazard conjugalities] are simply harlotry and calling them by new names does...
...read the signs of the present period of national life know that atheism, bigotry, bolshevism, disrespect for law and order and arrogant interference with the liberties of the individual are the evils which right-minded citizens must combat. If the members of this order practice what they preach we constitute the organized force best prepared to battle against these un-American tendencies...