Word: sermonizer
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Solid Advice. In Sydney, Australia, the Rev. Jack Leonard, who is also a ventriloquist, showed up for Sunday school with a wooden dummy on his lap, obliged his youthful parishioners to listen while it delivered a 20-minute sermon...
...public school was its Jeffersonian character-the mixing of children from all social levels. At casteconscious Harvard, President Conant's great theme was the American tradition of respecting any man good at his trade. "Each honest calling, each walk of life,'' he said in a baccalaureate sermon, "has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance . . . There will always be the false snobbery which tries to place one vocation above another. You will become a member of the aristocracy in the American sense only if your accomplishments and integrity earn this appellation...
...belated but appreciative thank you for your July 20 report on the United Church of Christ. I mentioned in my sermon of last Sunday in reviewing the Oberlin General Synod how TIME had printed the adopted Statement of Faith, and its importance to all Protestants...
...wife and two children on his $28 weekly factory pay (plus overtime). He usually officiates in his overalls at Communion before scurrying to catch a 6:50 train to work, spends lunchtime visiting the sick or talking to fellow workers, rushes home at 5:30 for parish work and sermon-writing. To the four other worker-priests, such a schedule is too rough; they only help out as assistant vicars when needed...
...religion. There are sumptuous orgies in palaces that look like the new banks of Beverly Hills; John the Baptist is beheaded in 70-mm. Panavision, color and stereophonic sound; and "the temptress" (Martha Hyer) moves about murmuring to Herod Antipas, "You thrill my inmost being." There is also the Sermon on the Mount, delivered by an offstage voice in soft-sell tones. There are stabbings, hurricanes, ambushes, chases, the miracles of Christ, racial conflict between Arabs and Jews, one case of polio and a death by charcoal burner...