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...Langdon's lengthy sermons manuscripts has been uncovered in the University archives, and has been placed on public display in Widener Library along with other valuable early records. The manuscript is in a private, original shorthand, devised by Langdon so he could compress his notes. In this form, written minutely, the notes fill twenty-four pages. It is probable the sermon required more than two hours rapid talking for delivery, authorities agree. Nobody has yet undertaken to decode the message...
...writing, The Moon's No Fool is a bold, imaginative flight, but one that seems headed in all directions at once. No reader can be sure his analysis of Mr. Matthews' meaning is the right one, that Mr. Matthews himself was always certain how his myth-sermon would...
...Schuster (after screen re-enactment in The March of Time for last October), reached a circulation of three million copies. It does not venture to translate into pictures much of the lusty and horrifying blood-reek of the article, but it does present, within conventional limits, an energetic little sermon on good highway manners. Lieutenant Knox (Randolph Scott), head of a police traffic department, meets Betty Winslow (Frances Drake) when she is arrested for driving 72 m.p.h. in a 30-m.p.h. zone. His efforts to educate her to caution involve a visit to the morgue and the exhibition...
Thence to talk much of the Baccalaureate Sermon which they all had read, even the little cousin, and much impressed with it; but I did not like it too much: Though I know it be a good proverb that the study of man be the candle of the Lord. And I was also glad to hear come from the President the value of character building in education; for I know, though this be a difficult and drippy subject, yet no wise man will doubt that learning without gentlemaness is a great failure. Yet I know this...
Boasts the nation's youngest evangelist: "I preach the best sermon you ever heard...