Word: sermonizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preacher of the ordination sermon, Rev. George Dorey of Regina, reminded his listeners that the cause of Lydia Gruchy had been championed by no less a churchman than the late Moderator Edmund Henry Oliver of the United Church. The Church's General Council finally voted to admit women to the ministry last September...
...Adolf William Meyer of St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Yonkers, N. Y. has kept conscientiously shipshape. Last week he uprose to tell 150 fellow clergymen of the Atlantic District of the United Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States, sitting in Manhattan, how to preach successful sermons. First he counseled them to "get a good sleep Saturday night," warned them that "a torpid liver produces a dull sermon." To this admonition spry, old Dr. Meyer added four "don'ts" for lively preachers...
SERVICE of Thanksgiving and Remembrance. Willard Learoyd Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School, will deliver the sermon in Memorial Church at 9.30 o'clock this morning. The service is open to the Governing Boards, Professors and Associate Professors of Harvard University, Delegates, and Delegations of the Harvard Alumni Association, the Associated Harvard Clubs, and the Students of Harvard University. The students will be represented by a delegation of 50 students...
...Langdon's lengthy sermons manuscripts has been uncovered in the University archives, and has been placed on public display in Widener Library along with other valuable early records. The manuscript is in a private, original shorthand, devised by Langdon so he could compress his notes. In this form, written minutely, the notes fill twenty-four pages. It is probable the sermon required more than two hours rapid talking for delivery, authorities agree. Nobody has yet undertaken to decode the message...
...writing, The Moon's No Fool is a bold, imaginative flight, but one that seems headed in all directions at once. No reader can be sure his analysis of Mr. Matthews' meaning is the right one, that Mr. Matthews himself was always certain how his myth-sermon would...