Word: sermonizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like Senator Thomas, he is planning for the next phase of the fight. In his New Year's Eve radio sermon he declared: "There is starvation because what little gold there is is in the hands of a few who mumble about the sacredness of man-made contracts in defiance of God-made obligations. Congress must decide once and for all whether Christ was a poet and idealist when He enunciated 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.' I still believe in His practicability...
...bimetallism, but with differences perhaps more notable than its likeness to its relative). And the same day that Senator Thomas was revealing to the Press a draft of a bill for substituting gold certificates for the gold reserve of the Federal Reserve Banks, the Father in his radio sermon was belaboring the Federal Reserve for not yet having turned over its gold to the Treasury (an act which the Treasury has not yet requested). Father Coughlin demanded it in the name of "120,000,000 inarticulate American taxpayers." Said he: "The American citizenry was crucified on Good Friday, 1917 between...
...grey, watery-eyed. Evangelism on what he calls "the kerosene circuit'' had left its stamp on him. So had heart disease. For his opener in Calvary Baptist Church he drew an oldish crowd of 2,175. His sermon was long, rambling. There were few antics on the platform, fewer "Amens" from the congregation. After wards only six people went forward to shake hands with...
...nigh every night and came in looking all whipped down. . . . When she asked him where he went he made power ful good excuses, for he had a mighty glib tongue. He swore to God the first night that the holy spirit had fallen on him so heavy during the sermon he had to leave the church and go off in the woods to pray. ... He talked mighty sweet about how he hated to leave her home by herself and all like that, but his tongue fumbled so it could not talk sweet enough to fool her. She had a good...
...Thornes in their house of thatch heard the words of scripture and a prayer in their own language; and also a sermon by Bishop Adna Leonard who concluded that the U. S. in the midst of all its troubles needed, even more than new laws, ''the . . . spiritual note which will lift up Jesus Christ as the burning centre of the Church's faith to you devoted missionaries who are carrying the gospel of the Son of God to the Christless millions of the earth...