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Manhattan to talk at the annual dinner of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. There he gave a powerful sermon about the facts of contemporary life. He told off the experts of Information Please for not knowing who does what on the Defense Commission; praised the new kind of "epic" leadership British labor has given democracy; called for the creation of a council to plan post-war prosperity...
...Norman Church of St. Michael's, at Oldham, in Hampshire. England, a congregation of 14 countryfolk prayed last Sunday evening for the soul of Arthur Neville Chamberlain. The village vicar, the Rev. H. R. P. Tringham, took as the text of his sermon, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God." Said the vicar in his sermon: "No one labored more hard, or so spared himself rest, to obtain for you and me and for all fellow men the blessings of peace. Although it seemed a failure, it was a grand failure...
...Father's headquarters were in town, and there he preached on Sunday morning. Then, after dinner with one of his members (he quickly learned which sisters were the best cooks), he would hitch up his horse and go to one of the country charges for an afternoon sermon, returning to town for an evening service. During the week he had sermons to write, babies to baptize, sickbeds to sit beside, midweek prayer meetings to lead, couples to marry, people to bury, studying to do, men's and women's organizations to direct, young people to guide...
...crowds, at another he is abashed by Oakie, at a third he malignantly orders a pogrom. Even Chaplin's barber is not of a piece. At the end of the picture the long bewildered little man suddenly launches into a forceful, moving and undoubtedly heartfelt six-minute sermon on democracy...
Lank, friendly, unpretentious Bishop Tucker spent too many years (24) preaching in Japanese to be a soul-stirring orator in English, but his opening sermon touched an anxious subject. Said he: "The only way to make America Christian is to make it interested in the welfare of the world that lies outside its borders. The great menace to world welfare today is that aggressive nationalism which leads a country to exploit all the rest of the world for its own benefits...