Word: sermonic
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...Negro Soldier opens in a Negro church with the sermon of a Negro preacher (Carlton Moss). From its first moment, it is arresting. For the preacher is no Uncle Tom. He does not talk minstrel-show dialect or advise his flock that, for those who bear their afflictions meekly, there will be watermelon by & by, or the Hall Johnson Choir in the sky. He talks sober, unrhetorical English, and before long he is reading aloud (from Mein Kampf) some of Hitler's opinions about those "born half-apes." While he reads, the camera moves among his listeners, quietly contradicting...
Teaching quick-witted Koreans was pleasant until the Japanese seized Manchuria (1931). Then the Japs dictated what should be taught, constantly suspected "dangerous thoughts." When one faculty member preached a chapel sermon on the exodus of the Israelites, the Japanese arrested him, charged him with preaching against them by parables. At last Dr. Underwood did not even dare visit Korean homes. Whenever he did, the Japanese police carted off his hosts to jail...
...sermon after being enthroned as Archbishop of Westminster, Monsignor Bernard Griffin, Primate of English Ro-man Catholics, told the international congregation in jampacked Westminster Cathedral that easy divorce, birth control, books and films that sneer at the sanctity of marriage, are all signposts along the road to ruin. Said he: "The decline of a nation has always begun with the disintegration of the family...
...Most staggering conversion was that of hitherto fiercely anti-Christian Dr. Alfred Rosenberg (whose pagan activities were condemned by the late Pope Pius XI). Nazidom's No. 1 heathen preached a stirring Christian sermon: "Never before have millions upon millions faced death as now. What is life? ... Is it a mirage, only existing in our minds? . . . Is it a theater in which we appear as puppets, playing dramas and comedies to amuse? We do not know whom: God or Satan? Two thousand years ago a miracle occurred and Christ gave us an answer. Even those who did not believe...
...Faith in the Devil. Church attendance was obligatory for members of the royal household. "One Sunday the minister [at Balmoral], Mr. MacGregor. preached on the devil. Afterwards he asked Princess Louise whether the Queen liked his sermon. 'She said she ... should think not, as the Queen did not altogether believe in the devil.' " Said the Rev. Mr. MacGregor: "Puir body." Even more amusing is the story of wealthy, eccentric