Word: sermonizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...built between centre field and second base, stood 105 brides in white gowns, white veils, 105 bridegrooms in blue suits. In St. James Basilica that morning they had received Holy Communion. In the Wind sor Hotel they ate breakfast, signed marriage registers. On the baseball field they heard a sermon by Most Rev. George's Gauthier, Archbishop-Coadjutor of Montreal. A dynamic, youngish priest whom they all knew, Father Henri Roy, celebrated a nuptial mass after 105 priests made the couples men and wives. Then, in 105 automobiles lent by General Motors of Canada, Ltd., the couples drove...
Most influential preacher in the U. S. is a fuzzy-haired, magnetic man who was ordained a Baptist, for the past ten years has been a sectless theological liberal. Last February Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick preached in his Riverside Church in Manhattan a sermon entitled: "Dare We Break the Vicious Circle of Fighting Evil With Evil!" The sermon was later read by Dr. Fosdick's good friend and chief parishioner, John D. Rockefeller Jr., builder of the soaring, carillonned, $4,000,000 church, which he provided as Dr. Fosdick's spiritual home when the evangelical U. S. churches...
Soberly and at length, Mr. Rockefeller pondered Dr. Fosdick's words. Last week he had 50,000 copies of them distributed among U. S. businessmen, labor leaders, Congressmen. In a covering note he wrote: "This sermon ... is one of the most arresting utterances in connection with the gradual drift of the world toward a great conflagration that has come to my attention...
Excerpts from the sermon: "What apes we are! We copy those we hate. We fight evil with evil and become the evil that we fight. ... All this we do, thinking Jesus to be a visionary idealist. He is not. His ethic shows a more realistic insight into what is going on in this modern world than does our boasted hardheadedness...
...concluded the sermon with the following exhortation: "Neglect the tumult of the moment; do not be afraid to be yourself. Choose a field of effort where you may develop your talents to the utmost, Labor honestly and selflessly in your chosen calling. Then in spite of the warfare of ideologies and the outcome of current struggles if your hopes be realized, at some later day it may be written of you, 'He also lived to build a finer civilization.' In the multiplication of such epitaphs the greatness of a nation may truly be read...