Word: sermonizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bishop Manning, head of the Episcopal Church in New York City, declared in a sermon, "Our sympathies, our moral support, and whatever ever aid we can rightly give at this time must be with those who at untold cost are upholding the principles and ideals of human life in which we believe." President Seymour of Yale warned that "a defeat, complete or even partial, of the Western democracies in the present war must be regarded as a disaster of the first magnitude for this country." President Conant foresaw grim eventualities if Germany should win. "I believe that if these countries...
...diehards, backed by their bristling flocks, took their stand for Methodist Protestantism, made ready to repel invaders. This they accomplished peacefully, however. In most of the churches, new pastors courteously claimed the pulpits, were courteously refused, departed quietly-or even remained to hear a diehard's sermon...
Before the communion rail in St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Philadelphia's grimy Kensington industrial district last week knelt 80 out-of-work hosiery workers. They joined curly-haired Rector David Carl Colony in a prayer of thanksgiving. They listened to his sermon: "Remember . . . you have not arrived by yourselves but with the help...
...meeting house built the year he died. As of yore, his congregation will be drummed to meeting, the tithing man will tickle the drowsy with a rod tipped by a rabbit's foot, the precentor line out the psalms and lead the singing with a pitch pipe. The sermon will be "The Doleful State of the Damned," which Samuel Moody first preached on August 21, 1710. He will pray that Queen Anne's reign continue happy and glorious, "that this place and all other places be not bothered by Indians during the coming week...
Impersonator of Father Moody will be York Village's present Congregational pastor, the Rev. Walter H. Millinger. Earnest, antiquarian Parson Millinger held his first Father Moody Sunday in 1936 after running across his predecessor's fiery sermon. The idea has spread; now all Maine is digging up old sermons, redelivering them with period fixings. But even Pastor Millinger has yet to re-enact one custom of Father Moody's time: those who did not spend Sunday in church spent Monday in the stocks...