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...seven years ago the congregation of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, saw Pastor Henry Ward Beecher* mount the pulpit, accompanied by a trembling nine-year-old Negress. Then, while many a woman became hysterical, while many a man shed tears, famed Abolitionist Beecher turned his pulpit into a slave-pen, his sermon into an auctioneer's harangue, asked his hearers to bid $900 for this fine piece of colored flesh- Sally Maria Diggs, commonly known as "Pinky." Last week the congregation of Plymouth Church saw its present pastor share his pulpit with a Negress. They heard him recall that...
...Carrie Gloyd married the Rev. David Nation, veteran of the Civil War. In 1901 the Rev. Nation, divorced her on grounds of desertion, cruelty. It had been her custom to sit in the front pew while he was preaching, comment audibly upon his sermon. When she had listened as long as seemed to her sufficient, she would shout out: "That will be about all for today, David!" In 1900 Carrie Nation, began to see visions and to hear angel voices. In church she became ecstatic, ran up and down the aisles, clapped her hands, shouted "Hallelujah!" and "Praise the Lord...
...seems to many men their rising in a cinema show every time the U. S. flag appears in a newsreel. Last week Bishop William T. Manning of the diocese told the men to keep their seats; the women would be tolerant. He also remarked that he would preach the sermon July 3 at the 1,300th anniversary of York Minster Cathedral * in York, England...
...must have drawn Appleby Hollisheimer to the steps of Memorial Hall. Inside Sanders Theatre was his class, was Rita Grundy, was Solomon O'Cabot--happy mortals all, oblivious of Appleby's existence, oblivious of all save the stirring words of Dr. Casey of the Boston Police delivering the Baccalaureate Sermon. He was carrying the Class of 1927 to a pitch of spiritual elevation which would carry them through life; some were already beginning to sob gently when...
...Modesty has already burst; it is dead. The average girl of today is like the moth fluttering around the candle light, and she sometimes gets her wings singed. But she is at least lifting the morals of the young men." Students crowded to thank Dr. Chapel for his sermon...