Word: sermonizer
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...night thriftily emptied the shelves of fruit that might spoil in another day and baked it into pies, which she put on sale in the morning. Occasionally she would catch shoplifters, but, instead of turning them over to the police, she would give them a little sermon, always aware that the disgrace of an arrest would hurt their families. Her son reflects that feeling. "Even when I was convinced that Hiss was a traitor," says Nixon, "I couldn't help thinking of his family and his friends, and how hard this was on them...
...make a sermon of it? Why waste breath? Exactly in the way they'd planned his death They fell on him and slew him, two to one. Then said the first of them when this was done, 'Now for a drink. Sit down and let's be merry. For later on there'll be the corpse to bury.' And, so it happened, reaching for a sup He took a bottle full of poison up And drank; and his companion, nothing loth, Drank from it also, and they perished both...
...race for the presidential nomination was a man who kept insisting that he was not a candidate. All week long, the pressure on Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson steadily increased. On Sunday, when the governor attended Chicago's fashionable Fourth Presbyterian Church, he was the target of a sermon against indecision by the Rev. Dr. Harrison Ray Anderson. Dr. Anderson's theme was "How Men Know God's Will"; his conclusion: "One must...
Back at Princeton Seminary last week, the veteran preacher gave a quiet sermon to 331 of his fellow ministers assembled for the seminary's summer Institute of Theology. His subject: "The Four Winds and the Voice of God."* To an audience of professionals, his rolling periods, the long Biblical analogies, the references to the writings of the Founding Fathers were in themselves an epitome of a great but vanishing style of church preaching. His message might stand as the valedictory of a man to whom theological controversy has never been so important as the saving of souls...
...organ music. Elder Davidson opens with a story for the children, then runs off a 30-minute religious movie, or a "family problem" movie with such titles as Love Thy Neighbor and Honor Thy Family. After a brief prayer, Davidson (or a guest preacher) begins the half-hour illustrated sermon. Since May, both drive-ins have been drawing steady crowds. (Top attendance so far, for a visiting minister: 2,000.) Says Adventist Rustad: "We live in a new age, and the churches should keep moving with the times...