Word: sermonizer
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...stoked the church fires, dusted the pews. First organist at St. Paul's was Sara Angelina Waffle, who on severe winter days had her old-fashioned pump organ pushed up next to the stove to prevent her fingers from becoming numb. Frequently in the course of a sermon Organist Waffle would sidle off her bench to put a stick of wood on the fire...
According to his father, young Charles prattled at 2½: "Father, I want to preach." Father Jaynes has since obliged by reading sermons to his son, who absorbs them while playing with his fire engine. The little fellow knows the Sermon on the Mount by heart, can recite other long biblical passages without prompting. Observers have been amazed at Charles Jaynes Jr.'s sermon "Heaven," which involves long, complicated passages from the Book of Revelation...
...strange stone was dug up last year in the ruins of a synagog in Capernaum. Built in 200 B. C. and destroyed by Romans in 200 A. D., the synagog is believed by archeologists to be the one in which Jesus preached his first sermon after calling James and John from their nets. The inscribed stone, only one yet found which could have been in existence in Christ's time, remained untranslated until Smithsonian's Dr. Lamsa deciphered it last week. He read: As a good memorial for Zebedee, son of John, who made this pillar...
...fellow countrymen, I have Germanized the Sermon on the Mount. I have not translated it. For you Christianity has been made foreign. I have done this work so that once again you will be able to understand with your hearts God's words in German...
Bishop Müller's first task was to remove from the Sermon on the Mount all reference to Jews, Pharisees, King Solomon, the Ten Commandments, and to fit what was left into Nazi ideology. Examples...