Word: sermonizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...near Earle, Ark., when a picket line of sharecroppers was broken up by a mob of vigilantes, a Negro named Frank Weems had been beaten to death. Within a few days the Rev. Claude Williams, asked by the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union to preach Weems's funeral sermon, left Memphis accompanied by Willie Sue Blagden, Memphis social worker, to investigate Weems's death and gather material for his obituary. At Earle, they were seized by vigilantes. Parson Williams was given 14 thumping whacks with a mule's belly strap. Then Willie Sue Blagden got four solid...
President Conant will deliver the Baccalaurcate sermon in the Memorial Church on Sunday. Following the service President and Mrs. Conant will entertain the Senior Class...
...winters ago my brother and myself were hunting rabbits in Central Illinois for a living. We would leave home early in the mornings and return late-but on Sundays the rabbits in the vicinity lived on borrowed time until we had heard Mr. Bradley's sermon. I have no greater respect for the mind of any man than I have for this lover of mankind. Although I'm not religious myself the precepts of this minister could inspire nothing but elevating thoughts and love for one's neighbor. I believe his capacity for doing good...
...hope from Daughter Roberta's victory last week. But Sister Aimee exhibited little chagrin. With a substantial number of her Temple addicts still loyal, she put on a garment of white chiffon which could be swished out behind her like a pair of wings, and preached a stirring sermon about her Cause. Into a "defense pot'' Four Square Gospelers tossed money, jewelry, gold bridgework...
Preston Bradley, son of a blacksmith of Linden, Mich., preached his first sermon at 15, studied law and obtained a D. C. L. degree, then returned to the church as a Presbyterian student pastor. Before he even got around to studying theology, Preston Bradley withdrew from the Presbyterian Church, began preaching independently, set up Peoples Church as an "all-sectarian" group in a Chicago theatre. By 1926, when he built a $750,000 church on the North Side, Dr. Bradley had found Unitarianism to his taste, affiliated his congregation with the American Unitarian Association. Peoples Churchgoers contribute...