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Hell's Fire. In Miles City, Mont., the Rev. John B. Fitz paused in the midst of his outdoor sermon, picked up a gun, shot two rattlesnakes that happened by, went on preaching...
...enjoyed your sermon very much." Countless beamingly polite churchgoers so inform their preachers every Sunday. Last week the Rev. Robert E. Woods, veteran preacher of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, took the wind out of their sails. Said he, from the pulpit: "Sermons are not intended to be enjoyed [but] to instruct, to inspire ... to make you uneasy about yourself. Any sermon that doesn't do that has misfired...
...opinion of denominationalism by becoming (in 1919) the associate minister of Manhattan's wealthy First Presbyterian Church. There he touched off a controversy between Modernists and Fundamentalists which made Page-One news and rocked U.S. Protestantism to its foundations. One Sunday morning in 1922, Fosdick delivered a blistering sermon, in which he said: "Just now, the Fundamentalists are giving us one of the worst exhibitions of bitter intolerance that the churches of this country have ever seen." He proceeded to state his own Modernist position by questioning the Virgin Birth, the literal inspiration of the Scriptures, the belief that...
General Eisenhower had effectively ended the coddling of distinguished German captives by susceptible U.S. generals (TIME, May 27). But an eloquent sermon on the subject by famed G.I. Cartoonist Bill Mauldin was still news when it was syndicated in the U.S. last week...
John Donne, one of the greatest of the Jacobean poets, was the carnal, devout, intense Dean of St. Paul's. Of Death-whether in his famous "For-whom-the-bell-tolls" sermon, or in many poems of which this one (reprinted from Reader's Companion, edited by Louis Kronenberger-Viking, $2) is a-distinguished example-he wrote with solemn grandeur, and a consoling lack of fear...