Word: sermonizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...habits and sandals; dozens of Bishops all in copes & mitres save two who wore low-church chimera and academic hoods (one of these. Bishop Francis Marion Taitt of Pennsylvania, had welcomed the Congress saying his diocese had all sorts of churchmanship "but most churches get along neighborly"). In the sermon of the Mass Bishop Perry exclaimed: "The way of communion with God is the only way by which Christian reunion shall at last be realized. Catholic Christianity bears witness to the wholeness of faith, it is a spiritual condition essential to the vision of God's whole...
...effort to bottle up the Northwest's output until prices rose. Doubting the legitimacy of the measure, Governor Langer's neighbors declined to join his embargo. But Charles Wayland Bryan of Nebraska, brother of the late Great Commoner, took the Langer invitation for a text, delivered a sermon of his own on the woes of farmers. Governor Bryan dramatically declared: "The unrest in the nation is increasing. All of the anti-trust laws have been either nullified or overridden. The people are now being plundered. The prices of the farmers' products are decreasing so his throat...
...inverse proportion to the fury of its advertising campaign. As the "Bureau of Missing Persons" appears on the screen, it is a harmless tale centered around the adventures of a young detective in the particular department under inspection. His inexperience is considered sufficient justification for a lengthy sermon on the value of the Bureau; his presence imparts some continuity to the series of otherwise unconnected incidents; his youth is Hollywood's reason for dragging in the love interest...
...Dissenters." none of them orthodox. (Two are still extant, in Hempstead and Jamaica, L. I., the former being the first U. S. church to bear the name Presbyterian.) Pioneer Makemie organized in Maryland the first five truly Presbyterian churches. In Philadelphia in 1692 he preached the first Presbyterian sermon that city had heard. Later he organized the first U. S. Presbytery, became its first Moderator. In 1707 he was arrested in New York as a "strolling preacher" at the order of much-hated Lord Cornbury. Jailed for two months, he was tried and acquitted but forced...
When a reporter called last week at Brangwyn's studio, "The Jointure," in Ditchling, Brangwyn said that "painting the Sermon on the Mount without Christ was the greatest puzzle of his career." The reporter remembered that one wall of the RCA Building lobby where Brangwyn's mural will go was blank last week because Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera had refused to paint Nicolai Lenin out of his great panel. The story blathered across Manhattan's front pages that "Rockefeller Center Bars Jesus From Mural." Quietly Architect Hood said, "Whatever Brangwyn does-even if he presents the actual...