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...assembled his assistants ?whom he calls "my young men"?and told them: "We must divorce [this investigation] as far as possible from legalistic machinery. There is more eloquence in the testimony of an illiterate witness telling of oppression suffered from legal processes than in the greatest sermon, editorial or address ever written...
...regard to business, New York, where live some 17% of U. S. Jews, is one of the non-Sabbath observing States. Last Week Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein of the Institutional Synagogue in Manhattan, broadcasting his sermon, declared that this "religious persecution" must cease. "I call upon the Legislature of the State of New York to pass the Hofstadter-Moffat Sabbath bill!" he cried. Sponsored by Senator Samuel H. Hofstadter and Assemblyman Abbot Low Moffat, the bill would enable seventh-day observers to engage in business on "the first day of the week." Thus all would be equal in the sight...
...Text: "And behold there was a very stately palace before him, the name of which was Beautiful, and it stood by the highway side"-Pilgrim's Progress. The Sermon: Archibald Davis (James Bell, who went to the electric chair in The Last Mile) and his wife Jennifer (pretty Mary Phillips of Oh Promise Me, a heroine at last) are very honorable and romantic people who buy a house in a miserable little New Jersey subdivision. As the years roll by, Archibald's scruples prevent him from making any money. He is too honest to sell his firm...
...Voted. 2. That Mr. Jno Leverett and Mr. Wm Brattle be by ye President admitted ad gradum Baccalaureatus in Theologia, they first making each of them a Sermon in Latin in ye College Hall & responding to a Theological Question...
This posthumous story by the late Henry Sydnor Harrison is more of a sermon than a novelet, may possibly help lift you to a state of grace if you are still bemoaning stockmarket losses. Author Harrison wrote so cheerfully you may like it anyway...