Word: sermons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conscious of its virtue. It doesn't worry about its low place on the newsstands (third among Manhattan's four morning papers), but it occasionally deplores the low state of culture that causes that fact. Last week one of the Times's editors preached a little sermon on why four out of five New Yorkers prefer the tabloids at breakfast...
...qualities Methodists want in their ministers, as enumerated in Pointers for Pastors [TIME, Jan. 13], and you have a soberly attired, mildly cheerful chap who carefully assays the theological predispositions of his congregation before writing a sermon, and who takes pains to put more prayer than thought into its preparation; is a safe conservative in his political and economic views; delivers special addresses only to groups of no social significance or consequence; keeps clear of the great issues of our time by handing them the cliché treatment; has no bad habits; addresses his spouse as "dearie"; and covers himself...
Next morning, Preacher Gill Dodds was up early to give a sermon at the Medway (Mass.) Congregational Church...
...Coffee Club. Next morning the President engineered one of the little scenes that most delight him. Dropping into the five-&-dime store, in search of Mayor Roger T. Sermon, Harry Truman happily joined the "coffee club" at the soda fountain. Perched on a stool, sipping a nickel Coke, enjoying the giggling confusion of the fountain girl, Harry Truman had the time of his life...
Both a local report and a social sermon, Small Town is most revealing when it is most parochial, when Author Hicks neglects the issues of the world at large to write about his fight for a town firehouse, about current attitudes in the schoolroom or garage...