Word: sermonizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life-saving idea came to Dr. Warren before the 1907 panic, while he held a Baptist pastorate in Manhattan. He preached a sermon against suicides in which he cried: "I wish that all who be lieve that death is the only solution to their problems would give me a chance to prove them wrong." Next day a dozen appeared for proof. Next day more. Fortunately he had sufficient money to surrender his pastorate, raise his daughter and two sons, and devote himself entirely to his Save-a-Life League. Cases which a country rest might cure he takes...
...Best seller: A Message to Garcia. This "literary trifle," as he called it, Hubbard wrote one night after dinner when Bert II had remarked that Rowan was the real hero of the Spanish-American war.† The Sage of East Aurora made this incident the peg for a passionate sermon on loyalty, duty, alertness. Short & snappy, it is still the gogetters' ABC, one of the first bits of advertising copy at which the Sage later became so successful. Translated into 45 languages and dialects, "more copies of it have been distributed than any piece of writing except the Bible...
...people were estimated to listen in every Sunday night on "Sunday at Seth Parker's." Mr. Lord is smooth-faced, suave, lively. As Seth Parker, he puts on a white wig and false beard, drawls genially and devoutly, becomes a skinny, saintly Yankee sage. He delivers a little sermon, pointed up with earthy rural witticisms. Leading members of his cast of ten singer-actors are "Ma" Parker, Capt. Bang (famed for his rendition of "Crossing the Bar"). Lizzie Peters, a comic spinster (played by Mrs. Sophia Mecorney Lord, mother of two), and Cefus, Lizzie's half-witted brother...
Especially appropriate is one of her scheduled sermons called "Bride Adorned." Her sex-appeal has always been one of her strongest qualities consecrated to the Lord. But "the greatest showman since Barnum" ought to have though of having all her various husbands standing behind her, at least during this particular sermon, as a living proof to the sceptical...
Echo from Lambeth. Before the Convention opened in Denver Auditorium, with 10,000 visitors, Bishop Perry, stanch opponent of divorce, had said in a sermon of welcome that "Christian marriage rises above the consideration of expediency and human desire. . . . The bond between husband and wife, once sealed in the name of God, is subject not to the will of man but to divine will." To preach the Convention's opening sermon had come Rt. Rev. Michael Bolton Furse, stocky Bishop of St. Albans. London. Significance: he was a leader of the opposition (unsuccessful) to the limited endorsement of Birth...