Word: sermonizer
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...Dissenters." none of them orthodox. (Two are still extant, in Hempstead and Jamaica, L. I., the former being the first U. S. church to bear the name Presbyterian.) Pioneer Makemie organized in Maryland the first five truly Presbyterian churches. In Philadelphia in 1692 he preached the first Presbyterian sermon that city had heard. Later he organized the first U. S. Presbytery, became its first Moderator. In 1707 he was arrested in New York as a "strolling preacher" at the order of much-hated Lord Cornbury. Jailed for two months, he was tried and acquitted but forced...
...Painter Brangwyn, 65, and ill but still full of emphasis, was finishing the fourth of four murals for Manhattan's Rockefeller Center RCA building, on Man's Relationship to Society. He and Architect Raymond Hood had affably agreed last winter on a composition showing Christ's Sermon on the Mount to symbolize Man and Religion. The Rockefeller Center art committee, including Director Herbert E. Winlock of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, suggested diffidently that it might not be "fitting to put the figure of Christ in a business building" as "too strong a representation...
When a reporter called last week at Brangwyn's studio, "The Jointure," in Ditchling, Brangwyn said that "painting the Sermon on the Mount without Christ was the greatest puzzle of his career." The reporter remembered that one wall of the RCA Building lobby where Brangwyn's mural will go was blank last week because Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera had refused to paint Nicolai Lenin out of his great panel. The story blathered across Manhattan's front pages that "Rockefeller Center Bars Jesus From Mural." Quietly Architect Hood said, "Whatever Brangwyn does-even if he presents the actual...
...Parkhurst, 91, famed oldtime foe of Tammany, of injuries suffered when he, a somnambulist, fell from the porch roof of his home in Ventnor, N. J. In 1892, as pastor of Manhattan's socialite Madison Square Presbyterian Church, bushy-bearded, scholarly Dr. Parkhurst amazed his congregation by a sermon in which he charged that gambling and prostitution were protected by New York's police. He hotly described the Tammany administration as "a damnable pack of administrative bloodhounds, polluted harpies, and a lying, perjured, rum-soaked, libidinous lot." When he failed either to substantiate or retract his charges...
...Sermon on the Mount. Christ referred to the Mosaic Law throughout, expounding and amplifying it. In several cases He quoted the words of Moses and set against them His own principles, thus: "Ye have heard that it hath been said. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But I say unto you. That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. . . . Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shall love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your...