Word: sermonic
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...little white chapel at Key West, Navy Chaplain Harold F. Menges, a Baptist, stepped forward to deliver his sermon. From I Corinthians 13:9 ("For we know in part, and we prophesy in part"), he led into a discussion of criticism. He condemned malicious and uninformed criticism, but added: "It's the wise man who can take and accept honest criticism and make good use of it." Listening raptly was Harry Truman, who has been subjected to infinite varieties of censure, and has done his share of censuring. After the service, the President grabbed the preacher's hand...
...title in her stage debut last Monday night. Playing in Clare Booth Luce's "Child of the Morning," she proves herself not only the best sniveler in the movies, but the best sniveler in the theatre as well. In that capacity she is well fitted for the play, a sermon that should never have stumbled onto the stage...
...Sample reasons: ¶ "I go to church because I want to be identified with an institution that stands for freedom of the mind and spirit . . . that has brought light into the world and uplifted men through the ages." ¶ "I feel God's presence in the music, the sermon, and in partaking of the Lord's Supper ... I could not worship regularly at home or elsewhere and gain the fellowship of worship I find at church." ¶"I go . . . because when I don't, I have an emptiness and restlessness inside...
...commemorative service was held in the morning, in connection with the ceremony, and the Right Reverend Henry Knox Sherrill, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America, preached the sermon. Bishop Sherrill condemned a recent tendency to speak of the futility of sacrifices made in the Second World War, and warned that though we were now faced with a new danger we should not forget our deliverance from an earlier...
...special section of the Church has been reserved for families of the men named on the Roll of Honor. The Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America, will preach the sermon and the University choir will sing at the 11 a.m. morning services. Dean Sperry of the Divinity School will conduct commemorative services...