Word: sermonizer
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...rebelled and was deemed a heretic. Student Newton spent one more year as a Baptist, then became an independent. In 1916 he was called to the famed City Temple ("Cathedral of Non-Conformity") in London. In three years he went through 28 air raids, preached many a forthright liberal sermon, once conducted a funeral for 500 British soldiers...
Sins In Senatobia, Miss., when Rev. William McCarty, 96, preached an old-style funeral sermon on the sins of the deceased, who he predicted was on his way to Hell, Mrs. Levy Laird, a relative of the deceased, tore off most of Mr. McCarty's clothes, smashed his hat, scratched...
...nothing to be admired save an abiding arrogance which he carries with him up to and through the gates of perdition. Miss Le Gallienne, as the servant girl whom he lives with, beats and foolishly dies for, gives an eagerly suppressed impersonation. To hear her haltingly read the Sermon on the Mount while Liliom lies dead on the police stretcher is easily worth the Repertory's $1.65 top admission price. The theatre's repertoire for the first two weeks includes Liliom and three old favorites: Camille, Peter Pan, The Three Sisters...
...accustomed to think of New York's Bishop William Thomas Manning as an extremely formal, frigidly aristocratic little prelate would have been amazed to behold him last Sunday morning. His pulpit was a footstool, set up amid shavings, lumber, scaffolding, tarpaulins, in a little Harlem church. His sermon was a fighting talk. His congregation of 250, pressing close upon him, was three-quarters Negro...
...King is openly cursed," said the Tory, "I might as well be in the infernal regions as in this country where my sentiments are known." And the President of Harvard College said in a sermon, "When one form of government is found by the majority not to answer the grand purpose in any tolerable degree, they may by common consent set up another." So began the American Revolution, in times when patriots poured lofty sentiments into the ears of their fellows, and pots of tar over the heads of hated "loyalists." The Vagabond remembers, as the Vagabond remembers most things...