Word: sermonizer
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Indecent Exposure. Some of those approached decided they were unable to whip up their beliefs in handy, non-controversial form for delivery in 3½ minutes of radio time. Wrote Novelist Kathleen Norris in refusing: "It's either a mawkish sermon, or it's indecent exposure." But an impressive cross-section of U.S. opinion did respond. Excerpts...
...demand to expel the Moslems from the Holy Land throbbed in the conscience of Christian Europe through the 12th century, and for many years thereafter. Few places in the West escaped the eloquence of the Crusader preachers. Writes Historian Runciman, describing a sermon of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, the most famous of them: "Very soon his audience was under his spell. Men began to cry for Crosses-'Crosses, give us Crosses!' It was not long before all the [cloth] that had been prepared to sew into Crosses was exhausted; and Saint Bernard flung off his own outer garments...
...Billy clips a lipstick-shaped microphone to his necktie; an assistant holds the coiled slack of the wire, and pays it out to him as he moves about. On the pulpit, Billy rests two black leather books. One is a notebook containing a typed outline of tonight's sermon, the other a Bible. The outline Billy never mentions but fleetingly consults; though each new sermon is rehearsed before a mirror, Graham's delivery is always convincingly ad lib. The Bible Billy mentions constantly: "The Bible says . . . Now don't get mad at me. Billy Graham didn...
...When the sermon is over, as the 700-voice choir softly hums an "invitation" hymn (Almost Persuaded) to wavering sinners, Billy's voice speaks out again, this time in a coaxing, soothing register: "Come on . . . We're waitin' on you. Don't you want to be born again? . . . You come on, now." Down the aisles, by ones and twos, and then in groups, they come...
...sermon by a minister of the Church of Christ...