Word: sermonizings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Case of the Sleepy Parishioner. "The goal of my Administration is to work for a greater society. I have come here today to ask your help in that work. I don't want you to answer me like the man who slept through the preacher's sermon down in my hill country. Every Sunday he would come and get in the front row and sleep all during the sermon. Finally the preacher got a little irritated, and one Sunday he said, 'All you people'-the fellow was snoring in the front row-he said...
...entirely appropriate. For instance, Cowboy dresses all in white, like an angel, and he brings with him Sister Salvation (Barbara Winchester), a little old lady with whom he has allied himself as protection against the police. While the addicts file in for their fixes, she delivers a little sermon, but the salvation she offers is as insubstantial as Cowboy...
After each lecture, the Cursillistas divide into smaller groups to discuss its application to their lives, draw pictures that illustrate the sermon's main points. To relieve spiritual tension, the Cursillo schedule provides moments of respite in which the students tell jokes and sing songs, notably a jaunty little Spanish folk tune called De Colores (Of Colors) that has become the unofficial theme of the Cursillo. Sample verse...
Last night's Stay-Out rally was more than a rally. It was a camp meeting, church sermon, political convention, vaudeville act, and song festival all rolled into the happiest, saddest, funniest, most moving program ever to rock Donnelly Auditorium...
Every time Sydney-born Methodist Evangelist Alan Walker, 52, delivered a sermon on radio or TV, his phone rang half the night with pleas for personal help. The experience told Walker that Australia's largest city (pop. 2,223,000) has a crying need-and a means at hand to solve it. And so he organized the Life Line Movement, which last March opened a $140,000 center in Sydney, where 250 Protestant laymen work 24 hours a day answering the telephone calls that come...