Word: sermonizer
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...Typical remark by an instructor: "The last Sunday you preached from your pulpit some nice old lady came up and said, 'That was a wonderful message, Doctor.' The first Sunday you preach after you finish this school, some bluejacket may come up and say, 'Damn good sermon, padre.' You must realize that there is as much sincerity in one as in the other...
...Working for peace and the general welfare is the essence of all true education and all true religion. It is the Sermon on the Mount in action. All the schools in the world will have to be reborn after this great conflict. ... It will be even more important for the schools to teach character than to teach facts...
...pink-pated Dr. James Henry Rushbrooke, 72, president of the Baptist World Alliance, had packed up his things at headquarters in London weeks before, come to the U.S. to attend the Alliance's executive committee meeting this week in Chicago. Along the way Dr. Rushbrooke preached many a sermon. He also sat in many a conference with clergy and laymen, outlining the wartime plight of the church from the Yangtze to the Zuyder Zee. But he saw hope, where many Baptists still could not see it, in Russia's easing attitude toward religion. Said he, seriously: "Perhaps...
...read "almost 1,500 books," including Prescott's history of the U.S. and the Bible. Most impressive work, he found, was called Immersion v. Sprinkling, "because it was passionately controversial." From being a devout Calvinist, young Harold rebelliously turned away from "formal religion," accepted the Sermon on the Mount as "good enough...
Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, telling the House of Commons last week about his recent trip to the U.S. and Canada, delivered a sensible sermon on Anglo-American understanding...