Word: sermonizer
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...think [Harold Ickes] is a very able man and a first-class Secretary of the Interior . . . but he is the type of man who always goes to extremes. . . . He cannot help it, and I forgive him. . . . I think I might preach a little sermon to the Senate on that subject. The Lord's Prayer, of which I would always speak reverently, contains the expression: 'Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against...
...Princeton University Chapel on Thanksgiving Day, Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, president of Union Theological Seminary and foremost U.S. Presbyterian, preached proud Americans a sermon on Christian humbleness. Excerpts...
...world last Sunday, Anglican and Episcopal priests read the collect for the Sunday next before Advent: "Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people. . . ." But few & far between were the clergy who followed the old English custom of Stir Up Sunday, taking their sermon texts from the collect's opening sentence. Fewer still were the irreverent moppets who piped the day's old ditty...
...flying bomb on London. Who is it that you are sorry for? The English children, or the Germans who man the flying bomb installations? You cannot forgive both the wolf and the lamb. That amounts to giving the wolf first a good dinner and then a soothing sermon to aid his digestion...
...ascended the pulpit in his Paris church, looked down on his congregation. He saw the faces of those who had just come from the barricades and the smiting of the Boche. His sermon as reported by the New York Times...