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Many are the men of God who are famed and glad for their ministrations to men of War. Last week Col. Julian E. Yates of Washington, chief of U. S. Army chaplains, went to hear a Lenten sermon at Washington's First Congregational Church. Minister of that church is rugged, cheery Dr. Jason Noble Pierce, himself a Wartime chaplain, presidential pastor during the Coolidge administration. But Dr. Pierce was away; occupying his pulpit was Dr. Peter Ainslie of the Christian Temple, Baltimore...
Inspired by the ten commandments of Tia Juana and the sermon on Monte Carlo the sons of the prophet of prosperity feed on the manna provided each chilly dawn at morning prayer. Faith in the ultimate victory of the pulpit in the spiritual contest against chance and fate is swelling the ranks of the believers. Traditional forms of worship--Isis, Dionysius, the Eleusinian mysteries, Mammon himself--are flicked out of consciousness by the true followers, the faithful who abide by the tenets of the spokesman of the divine decree...
Cartoonist George McManus (Bringing Up Father) made known that he would draw and explain his characters ("Jiggs," ''Maggie" et al.) to a Manhattan Methodist congregation to accompany Dr. Christian Fichthorne Reisner's sermon...
...monumental, historic scale, the pageant would begin, of course, in Heaven, where the Creator's appointment of Jesus as a Redeemer was to be represented with luminous effects and invisible voices. Next would be shown the creation of the world and its peoples; the ancient prophets; the Nativity, Sermon on the Mount, Resurrection. Then would follow the dark period of apostasy and, finally, the story of Mormonism...
Aimee Semple McPherson, Los Angeles soul-saver, set sail from Manhattan with her daughter Roberta and 75 pilgrims for the Holy Land. She said she intended to preach a sermon from the top of the Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt, another (on the evils of gambling) at Monte Carlo, but denied she would fly over Russia dropping pamphlets denouncing religious persecution...