Word: sermonizer
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...time got it punched by various assorted clergymen. As the country's Civilian Defense Director, New York City's Mayor asked all pastors, priests and rabbis to preach on religious freedom and democracy next Sunday, enclosed a pretty fair 1,500-word "outline" of the sort of sermon he hoped for. In a nation where Church and State are constitutionally separate, the mere suggestion made numerous ministers mad. Maddest was Editor Charles Clayton Morrison of the arch-isolationist Christian Century...
...unspeakable insult to the clergy of the U.S.," thundered Dr. Morrison. "Who would have imagined that an agency of the American Government would go so far as to tell preachers what to preach . . . [and] guarantee the right kind of preaching by presenting each pastor with a canned sermon and a text of Holy Scripture printed on the label...
...true. The same day the LaGuardia request became public, word leaked out of Germany that the Gestapo had jailed the dean of Berlin's Roman Catholic cathedral for "offering prayers for Jews." By way of contrast, the Mayor pointed out that nobody had to use his sermon, and sundry clergymen rallied to his support...
...would cut through Protestantism as through so much butter." Dr. Maynard is an old hand at stirring up churchmen. As a 19-year-old English man he came to the U.S. in 1909 to study for the Congregational ministry, was promptly fired from his first pulpit for preaching a sermon on "Silly fools, stupid fools and damned fools" which his hearers considered much too personal. Converted to Catholicism four years later, he now writes with the full fervor of the oath he took on abandoning Protestantism to "detest and abjure every error, heresy and sect opposed to the said Holy...
...Candler was then in charge of McKendree Chapel, Nashville headquarters of Southern Methodism. Emma Abbott with her opera company had just finished a three nights' engagement at Nashville's Vendome Theater. In his Sunday morning sermon, Dr. Candler attacked the theater in general, and Emma Abbott in particular...