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...York Sun's Correspondent George Van Slyke made so bold fortnight ago as to bill Dr. High not merely as the Democracy's political chaplain but as President Roosevelt's personal Richelieu. "It is to be an evangelical cam-paign," predicted Van Slyke. "Mr. Roosevelt will preach sugary sermons on brotherly love and the new social order, without making the direct appeal to class distinction and class hatreds as obvious and bitter as in his spring speeches. The new line is to be highly idealistic, so lofty that mere matters of budgets and taxes, debts...
...authorized version of his latest G. & S. operetta, Patience, on a U. S. tour. It was also his notion to send ahead, as unconscious pressagent, the notorious original of Patience's esthete hero, Oscar Wilde. Carte put the scheme to Oscar as a lecture tour, a mission to preach beauty to the barbarians. Oscar bit. Authors Lewis & Smith have chronicled his U. S. peregrinations against a lavishly illustrated contemporary background. Result is a big (462-page) sprightly blonde of a book, as meaty and hearty as an oldtime burlesque queen. When Oscar Wilde landed in Manhattan he arrived...
According to his father, young Charles prattled at 2½: "Father, I want to preach." Father Jaynes has since obliged by reading sermons to his son, who absorbs them while playing with his fire engine. The little fellow knows the Sermon on the Mount by heart, can recite other long biblical passages without prompting. Observers have been amazed at Charles Jaynes Jr.'s sermon "Heaven," which involves long, complicated passages from the Book of Revelation...
Boasts the nation's youngest evangelist: "I preach the best sermon you ever heard...
...Next month he becomes curate of Christ and St. Luke's Church in Norfolk (1,300 communicants). By the powers bestowed upon him last week by his Father in God & in flesh, Deacon Perry may assist in ministering Holy Communion, reading Scriptures, instructing youth, baptizing infants, may even preach with the permission of his bishop...