Word: sermonizer
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...curious crowded into massive, neo-Gothic Grace Cathedral. The great copper casket was carried into the arched, flower-filled chancel and set between two crosses of white lilies. From the Book of Common Prayer, the Rt. Rev. Karl Morgan Block, Episcopal Bishop of California, intoned the funeral service, without sermon or eulogy. At that moment, in the grimy office of the Examiner, a few blocks away, and in Hearst-papers across the land, typewriters and linotypes stilled their clatter, and for a few minutes the plants lay in silence. William Randolph Hearst had stopped the presses for the last time...
Topped. In Toronto, on the same Sunday the United Church offered a sermon entitled "Rainbow," the Baptist preacher two blocks away chose the topic: "The Double Rainbow...
...corner, Jersey Joe was so choked with emotion that at first he could hardly utter a word. He slid to his knees, and only his bustling, happy handlers kept him from collapsing to the canvas. But at the TV mike he recovered and delivered a muscularly religious sermon. As he later told reporters: "I've worked for 21 years for this night. I read my Bible before the fight I prayed between every round. I asked God to help...
...days, gowned and bearded Orthodox priests and black-coated visiting clergymen toured points of Pauline interest. Among them: Philippi (where he preached his first sermon in Europe), Salonika (where he established his first church in Europe), Corinth (where his First and Second Epistles to the Thessalonians and the Epistle to the Romans were written). The pilgrimage was under the sponsorship of the Greek Orthodox Church and the government, but Roman Catholic priests from France and Belgium were there...
...Angeles to set up a new refuge, then to Boston to start another. There he ran into strong objectors who insisted that "those poor people you talk about helping are nothing but bums, and they always will be bums." Boston's Archbishop Gushing approved him in a sermon, but Brother Matthias' way of meeting opposition-head on-was not conducive to amiable compromise, and eventually his order transferred him back to Ireland. Says he: "I was politely advised that I had been working very hard and needed a rest...