Word: sermonizer
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...School-who teaches a weekly course to 80 adults of the congregation. Sargent occasionally appears on French television and at ecumenical conferences involving French Protestant and Roman Catholic clergy. He chain-smokes his way through an 18-hour day filled with the normal routine of pastors everywhere-teaching, counseling, sermon writing, negotiating with the church's lay committees...
...case of dire need, when characters fail to move and ideas remain hopelessly mired, many an author falls back on a reliable device. He hauls his characters (and the reader) into church, and there, cloaked in clerical robes, delivers a sermon that sets everybody straight on what the novel is about. By extraordinary coincidence, literary sermons are always marvelously germane: no hero-wretch taken in adultery is ever made to sit through a discourse on the nature of the Holy Ghost...
Sylvia tries to help during family collisions but is rebuffed. She feels sorry and confused and so does the reader. Then, with nearly 200 pages turned, comes the sermon. It is a fine sermon, delivered by a wise old Scots preacher. on the folly of hoping to win God's grace by heaping up worldly goods or worldly good works. "Aye, Annie," the preacher mimics, "I've been aye doing so muckle guid, I've noe had time to set me down and mind...
King crowned a whirlwind one-day trip to Boston yesterday with a speech to an overflow crowd of 1730 admirers in Rindge Tech auditorium. Earlier in the day he was from Logan Airport to preach a sermon in Memorial . That was followed by a lunch given by the Rev. P. Price, Preacher to the University, and later a sponsored by the Young Democrats...
Every seat in Mem Church was filled half an hour before scheduled to begin, and late-comers heard his sermon into Sanders Theater...