Word: sermonic
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...universal sympathy for the underdog and respect, if not reverence, for priests, bishops, and popes. He wove these around a chubby cherub and a scrawny donkey and released a picture that one can only call effective. It is neither good nor bad, but merely a well-illustrated sermon...
Cushing made his rebuttal of Conant's speech in an Easter Sermon. Replying to statements that dual education in this country may eventually prove harmful to American democracy, Cushing stated that Conant "wants to close all parochial schools," claiming that parochial schools "promote the common good of our children...
...sermon referred to Conant's speech last week before the American Association of School Administrators, when he lashed out at private school education of all kinds as "a threat to our democratic unity...
...admired him as a good preacher and model citizen. They had no more idea than Pastor Wyngate in that year, 1906, how many of the old Victorian certainties were crumbling. As he intoned his text, "I am the way, the truth, and the life," they settled back for a sermon that would be solid but undisturbing...
Actually, Pastor Wyngate was nervous as he began his sermon. In the rear of the church sat his older brother Ramsey, and Ramsey was everything that Bart was not: good-looking, self-confident and a bully at heart. Ramsey had turned the head of Bart's wife, Louise, before they were married. What would happen, Bart wondered, now that his brother had turned up again...