Word: sermonic
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...pastor himself soon discovers that "poor as church mice" is an apt description. When the family larder is down to non-subsistive proportions, he writes a sermon on the five loaves and two fishes, in the desperate hope that someone in the congregation will be bright enough to take the hint and invite the family to dinner. He visits the marriage-license bureau, hoping to turn an honest wedding fee (generally...
...takes him to another, to point out what there is in the picture that is bad for him to see. The picture (a 24-year-old William S. Hart film, The Silent Man) so thoroughly wows the pastor that he uses the movie as a text for his Sunday sermon...
Bishop von Galen's sermons followed two attacks: one by British bombers which gave Münster one of the worst poundings any German city has yet suffered, the other from the Nazis, who suppressed all Catholic religious orders in Westphalia and imprisoned many prominent Catholics. The attack from the "inner enemy," he said in his first sermon, was spiritually the more dangerous...
Jekyll and Hyde was an instant bestseller and a boon to hundreds of sermon-seeking clerics. Richard Mansfield read it and induced his friend Thomas Russell Sullivan to adapt the "shilling shocker" for the stage. He played it in London and all over the U.S. until he died 20 years later. Two notable film versions of the play were made: one by John Barrymore in 1920-looking like a fur cap-the other by Fredric March-looking like Gargantua-in 1931. Both cinemactors played it successfully as pure horror, without fretting over the psychological implications...
...Episcopal clergymen in Oklahoma agreed to devote at least six hours each week to preparing the Sunday morning sermon, six hours to serious reading, and at least twelve hours to pastoral calls...