Word: sermonizer
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...ordained into the Baptist ministry in 1908, who later adopted the Unitarian creed, was installed in the pulpit of the Unitarian Church of the Divine Paternity. Famed for his liberal views on Christian theology, quite opposed to those of many members of his original sect, Mr. Potter preached a sermon in which he described the Pope's encyclical as "a singularly blundering, misinformed and untrue document . . . a claim of monopoly of the Christian religion that is most impudent. . . . Intolerance is one of the cleverest rapiers used by the Catholic Church...
There are large numbers of people (and the writer includes himself in this category) to whom any sort of lecture or sermon is a well-nigh intolerable infiction, and if one is compelled to sit still while somebody continuously talks on a subject which one can more comfortably read for oneself, one develops an attitude of mind resistant to all influence...
...obtained in the cloistered quiet of the chapel. In the Ecclesiastes there is both an excuse for the students dissoulty and for his at tendance at the morning service before the hour of trial-"much study is a weariness to the flesh" and-here is the text of the sermon-"remember thou thy Creator... while the evil days come...
...strange chime of their singing. But last week the voice of one of God's servants ran through the sky like an invisible lightening, came, out of many boxes, into the parlors of many U. S. homes. God's servant, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, was preaching his sermon through a microphone at the first service of the National Church of the Air. When his sermon ceased, hymns and anthems, sung by a quartet, came out of the parlor radio sets...
...Greater New York Federation of Churches began its radio activities by broadcasting Bishop Herbert Shipman's sermon from a public meeting in Manhattan. Since then the Federation has broadcast daily morning prayers, a weekly Youths Radio Conference, a weekly interdenominational service, a weekly hymn service, a Sunday vesper service. Last autumn, the sermons of Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, of Union Theological Seminary and of the Park Avenue Baptist Church in Manhattan, were added to the vesper services. Last week, these were formally organized as the National Church of the Air. A representative of the radio committee of the Federation...