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Especially appropriate is one of her scheduled sermons called "Bride Adorned." Her sex-appeal has always been one of her strongest qualities consecrated to the Lord. But "the greatest showman since Barnum" ought to have though of having all her various husbands standing behind her, at least during this particular sermon, as a living proof to the sceptical...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SING SOMETHING, SEMPLE | 10/9/1931 | See Source »

...Cripple It! Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland went to Atlantic City to address the utilities section of the American Bar Association. He took Power as his text, but delivered a general industrial sermon: "The Power Question?Let Us Not Go Revolutionary." Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Swope Plan | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

Echo from Lambeth. Before the Convention opened in Denver Auditorium, with 10,000 visitors, Bishop Perry, stanch opponent of divorce, had said in a sermon of welcome that "Christian marriage rises above the consideration of expediency and human desire. . . . The bond between husband and wife, once sealed in the name of God, is subject not to the will of man but to divine will." To preach the Convention's opening sermon had come Rt. Rev. Michael Bolton Furse, stocky Bishop of St. Albans. London. Significance: he was a leader of the opposition (unsuccessful) to the limited endorsement of Birth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Episcopalians At Denver | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

...church in Benton, 111., gathered the many friends of Stephen R. Patton. So. for his funeral. A quartet sang several hymns. The minister arose and preached the funeral sermon in a solemn, emotional voice, told how Stephen R. Patton had spent many wicked years before he became a Christian. In the mourners bench, behind piles of funeral wreaths, sat Stephen R. Patton himself. Tears gleamed in his eyes. Said he: ''It takes something like this to show a man how many friends he has." The friends had planned to give him a birthday party; he had begged for a funeral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 14, 1931 | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...Adrienne. Then Rosette annexed him for a while. The Countess d'Ys, though unnatural, tried him and found him wanting. When he rejoined his wife on the Riviera much the same sort of thing went on. Marriage in Blue makes the same impression on you as a hellfire sermon on the Seven Deadly Sins, fills you with a nausea of such rioting and drunkenness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hell-Fire Sermon | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

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