Word: sermonizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Text: "And behold there was a very stately palace before him, the name of which was Beautiful, and it stood by the highway side"-Pilgrim's Progress. The Sermon: Archibald Davis (James Bell, who went to the electric chair in The Last Mile) and his wife Jennifer (pretty Mary Phillips of Oh Promise Me, a heroine at last) are very honorable and romantic people who buy a house in a miserable little New Jersey subdivision. As the years roll by, Archibald's scruples prevent him from making any money. He is too honest to sell his firm...
...Voted. 2. That Mr. Jno Leverett and Mr. Wm Brattle be by ye President admitted ad gradum Baccalaureatus in Theologia, they first making each of them a Sermon in Latin in ye College Hall & responding to a Theological Question...
This posthumous story by the late Henry Sydnor Harrison is more of a sermon than a novelet, may possibly help lift you to a state of grace if you are still bemoaning stockmarket losses. Author Harrison wrote so cheerfully you may like it anyway...
...angry little men had a fracas in Manhattan's great Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine last Sunday. One little man, Bishop William Thomas Manning, damned the other in his sermon. The other little man, onetime Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey, was tensely listening directly below the Bishop. Said the Bishop in part: "As to his latest book [The Companionate Marriage'], I can only say here, speaking as a Bishop of the Church, that it is in my judgment one of the most filthy, insidious and cleverly written pieces of propaganda ever published in behalf of lewdness...
...another Manhattan Episcopal church, as ecclesiastically illegal. Dr. Coffin replied by inviting the Episcopalians to his own communion service at Union Theological. Last week he answered Bishop Manning by rescinding his assent to preach in the Church of the Ascension. His comment: "In view of Bishop Manning's sermon and the subsequent discussion, it seemed wise to withdraw, as I did not wish to be the means of promoting further controversy...