Word: sermonic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Modesty has already burst; it is dead. The average girl of today is like the moth fluttering around the candle light, and she sometimes gets her wings singed. But she is at least lifting the morals of the young men." Students crowded to thank Dr. Chapel for his sermon...
...Allowed dapper Representative John Philip Hill of Maryland, famed Wet, to insert in the Congressional Record a sermon of his great-grandfather, famed Dry. The sermon's subject was national defense...
Last year, many a Fundamentalist reproached Dr. John Roach Straton, Fundamentalist thunderer, when he invited Uldine to his Manhattan temple to speak. The Bible, they said, forbids women's appearance in the pulpit. Fearless Preacher Straton permitted her to proceed, and she gave a sermon based so fundamentally upon the Ark of the Covenant that it soothed the hearts of the reproachful ones. But later in Madison Square Garden she was charged by atheists with violating the child labor laws by preaching for money...
...starving man who stole food to keep himself alive." Commentators listed in the Bishop's support Victor Hugo, whose nun in Les Miserable-; told with the author's approval her first lie, for hounded Jean Valjean. Otherside supporters recalled famed Presbyterian evangelist Robert Elliott Speer's sermon The Margin of Safety, in which, admitting that the dividing line between Evil and Good is often hard to determine, he held that therefore good Christians would keep well on the side of good...
Colonel Huger of South Carolina tells the story of his attempt at rescuing Lafayette from prison in Austria. Daniel Webster orates, in public and at home. Andrew Jackson bristles into Boston. William Ellery Channing, founder of Unitarianism, preaches a sermon. John Quincy Adams and Josiah Quincy visit Joseph Smith, "the bourgeois Mohammed," at muddy Nauvpo, 111., being privileged to dispute with him in a strange dormitory and to view the prophet's dubious Pharaoh mummies and Mosaic manuscripts, (being told upon leaving, that it is customary to pay old Mother Smith $L25 for this honor...