Word: sermonizer
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...Jazz Sermon. Somehow, the shock is not shocking. The evil act. which should dominate the book, is not made really believable. The last chapters of the novel have the faintly embarrassing tone of a sermon in jazz language attempted by an overearnest cleric. The tormented murderer asks: "Why is it that if we could all learn to play together the way we did-why is it we couldn't learn to live together?" The narrator's sanctimonious reply: "Woody, if we could-even between us-answer that simple question-seemingly simple-we could turn this into...
Last week, after 44-year-old Presbyterian McNeill had finished his Sunday sermon, the Rev. Frank C. King of Valdosta, Ga. rose to read the decision of a commission appointed by the Presbytery of Southwest Georgia to study reports of dissension within Pastor McNeill's church. The decision : Robert McNeill must go: "The interests of religion imperatively demand...
...evening service, the real voice of the congregation was still heard: parishioners wept again as they heard Bob McNeill preach a blistering farewell sermon. "We in the South can no longer speak in terms of democracy or justice without making a parenthetical exception for an entire people. When we make this exception time after time in everything we do, we have lost the capacity to reason logically. I have grown to despise a particular word. That word is 'compromise.' Have you noticed how everybody is a moderate these days? Everybody is rushing toward the middle ground...
...Baccalaureate sermon of 1954 he declared: "This relationship to God--the attitude of reverence--this is the paramount thing. All of us stand perpetually in need in our lives of that basic affirmation which is the essence of faith." In his 1957 address, President Pusey disavowed any tie between faith, and sectarianism in the University: "In my judgment the people who are speaking for religion in universities today should not be understood as speaking in favor of a particular church. They are not asking for special privilege...
...That the Reverend President be desired to accept Doctoratus in Theologica, and that A Diploma be drawn up by the Corporation & presented to him.... That Mr Jno Leverett & Mr Wm Brattle be by ye President admitted ad gradum Baccalaureatus in Theologica, they first making each of them A Sermon in Latin in Ye Colledge Hall, & Responding to A Theologicall Question...