Word: sermonizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What with house-to-housing for cocktails, dialing in on the Bishop's sermon, jamming into a box for the Christmas matinee, going to another dance; and what with municipal Christmas trees, stuffed store windows, red Santas on the street corners and grimy urchins in the alleys, the metropolite has Yuletide sports aplenty. In the country there are house-to-housing, dialing, village Christmas trees, bob-hitching behind autos, fashionable coasting at the country club, taking of pictures of the house, going to another dance, telephoning the neighbors. . . . Here and there the yule-log is still drawn...
...Cadman, in his "official sermon" to the Council, said that, some time in the "far future," all forms of Protestantism and Roman and Greek Catholicism would be "sublimated in one great faith." . . . "The hour has struck," said he, "for the condemnation...
...sermon yesterday morning, Dr. Fosdick again emphasized this fact. He pointed out that Christianity was neither a superfluity nor an abnormality imposed on life, but that it was life itself...
...Sunday morning, in Binghamton, N. Y., the Rev. D. Stanley Shaw waxed warm as he got on with his sermon in the Tabernacle Church. One thing had led to another; Pastor Shaw found himself talking about U. S. newspapers. As reported by those who heard him, Pastor Shaw declared that the average modern newspaper, not excluding the dailies right there in Binghamton, were not worth more than 15 minutes of the time of a Christian reader. Some in the congregation quoted Pastor Shaw as adding: "Modern newspapers are a stench in the nostrils of decent people and reek with accounts...
...holds in his home at Doom every morning religious exercises at which are present his wife, his official circle and all his servants; these exercises consist of Bible reading and prayers. On Sundays, he conducts formal services and delivers a sermon on a text from the Bible. His correspondence further reveals the fact that his domestic relations are happy; his references to his wife, Hermine, display the deepest affection...