Word: sermonizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Only with the power to enact statutes, not with their wisdom," and, what is as arrogant as it is redundant, that the justices must never fail to exercise self-restraint. It is hard to believe that Justice Stone's colleagues on the bench either deserve or need such a sermon. At no point in the majority opinion does the court lose the strict objectivity it has heretofore maintained. In this case Justice Stone is not addressing a frost-bitten or anti-social cabal. The decision is that of Hughes and Roberts as well as McReynolds and Van Devanter...
...respected Episcopal clergyman-Rev. Dr. Benjamin Franklin Root, rector of St. Simon's Church in Chicago, onetime dean of the Cathedral in Albuquerque, N. Mex. Dr. Root calmly announced he forgave his daughter-in-law for killing his son. Last week he publicly interpolated his feelings in a sermon on forgiveness. While his wife was visiting Daughter-in-law Daisy in the Memphis jail, Dr. Root mounted his pulpit, declared...
...around the gate, waiting to say: "Hello, Helen! Hey, George! Hey, Will! Hey, little Paul! Come on in!" Whether the Rev. William Ashley Sunday went to Heaven last week no one on earth could tell. That he would go there was his firm conviction, voiced in many a revival sermon. Just how he would enter Heaven, whom he would find there, what he would say to Jesus and what Jesus would say to him he once told a Kansas City congregation in great detail (see above). Billy Sunday spoke frequently of his death. He exclaimed: "I'd like...
Chicago editors' stomachs were less delicate. Despite the fact that William Randolph Hearst opposes capital punishment, his Herald & Examiner gave the picture a full page, tacked on a homely sermon against crime by Rev. Thomas Anderson, religion editor. Next day the Herex ran all six pictures and the Hearst American slapped one across Page One with a homily by Rev. Preston Bradley, publicity-loving dean of the Chicago clergy...
...Religious Digest, edited by Rev. Dr. Bernard J. Mulder, 39, Reformed Church minister of Grand Rapids, Mich. Resembling the Readers' Digest in format, this monthly ($3 per year) culls and condenses articles from such journals as Anglican Theological Review, Church Management, Religious Telescope, Character, includes book reviews, sermon outlines, pious "features...