Word: sermonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night thriftily emptied the shelves of fruit that might spoil in another day and baked it into pies, which she put on sale in the morning. Occasionally she would catch shoplifters, but, instead of turning them over to the police, she would give them a little sermon, always aware that the disgrace of an arrest would hurt their families. Her son reflects that feeling. "Even when I was convinced that Hiss was a traitor," says Nixon, "I couldn't help thinking of his family and his friends, and how hard this was on them...
...Recalling his days as headmaster of Andover in the September Atlantic Monthly, Claude M. Fuess (rhymes with peas) had some tales to tell of visiting clergymen and their sermons: "The patience of a schoolboy congregation is often sorely tried. One winter three successive clergymen took as their theme the parable of the Prodigal Son. Again, three visiting clergymen in a row ended their sermons with a stereotyped quotation from Sir Henry Newbolt, beginning, 'There's a breathless hush in the close tonight,' and concluding dramatically, 'Play up! play up! and play the game...
...their first meeting in Lancaster, Pa., Lawrence led the singing and George gave his maiden sermon, a vigorous appeal to elect for Christ and escape damnation, a topic which Mennonites have always stressed. The first night more than 2,000 jammed their way into the tent. Dozens were converted. Before the week was out, the Brunks had to order a new tent...
...congregation in a series of old-time hymns, interspersed with short, humorous monologues. After the tent was filled, George got up to preach, wearing no tie and a suit with no lapels (in accord with old Mennonite custom). By the time he wound up his hour-long sermon, the audience had caught his enthusiasm...
...make a sermon of it? Why waste breath? Exactly in the way they'd planned his death They fell on him and slew him, two to one. Then said the first of them when this was done, 'Now for a drink. Sit down and let's be merry. For later on there'll be the corpse to bury.' And, so it happened, reaching for a sup He took a bottle full of poison up And drank; and his companion, nothing loth, Drank from it also, and they perished both...