Word: sermonizer
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...have laughed, but not the nabobs at CBS when Steinberg preached such a mock-sermon on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour three years ago. The network asked its affiliate stations to preview the show in order to determine if it was within the bounds of "good taste." Later, after the Brothers refused to excise a second "irreverent and offensive" Steinberg sermonette, CBS canceled the series...
...could sing a promised benefit concert at the cathedral, 4,000 admirers came to hear Duke Ellington read the Bible and Clara Walker and Delores Hall sing gospel tunes. Then they prayed and clapped happily in time with the music. Said Rutgers University Professor Samuel Proctor, who delivered the sermon: "It was joyful music, a joyful occasion, as joyful as Mahalia's own life and music were...
...rate social history, it never really becomes the true-life epistolary novel which Editor Myers claims. The Joneses wrote of farming and money, hurricanes and family visits, a trip to Niagara and Mammoth Cave, a cousin dead of yellow fever, an uncle disgraced by drink and a woman, a sermon enjoyed, a length of calico purchased. They wrote also about their slaves-referring to them usually, with unsettling reverberations today, as "the people...
...capital city's only major Baptist church. More than 1,000 worshipers, mostly blue-collar workers, crammed into the hall, and not only because Nixon was on hand. The church is packed every Sunday at each of three lengthy, enthusiastic services. On this occasion the brief sermon by Ilia Ivanov, chairman of the All-Union Council of Evangelical Christians and Baptists, was based on Paul's words in Galatians 5: 22: "The fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace...
...knee when sitting beside her. He also talks over many of his big plans with her. A handsome, energetic woman, Mrs. Wilson was named Mother of the Year by the American Mothers Committee in 1970. Both Methodists, the Wilsons are regular churchgoers, though he occasionally nods off during a sermon...