Word: sermonized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finley delivered the Baccalaureate sermon in the absence of President Conant. He was selected by officers of the Senior Class. The Baccalaureate service was conducted by Willard L. Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School...
...most of it disappeared from circulation in the darkened caves of U.S. movie theaters. Surveying the technological development that set the corn rolling, the Russians formally announced that they had invented the thing first. A Chicago beanery produced the 3-D Special, and a Midwestern minister gave a sermon on "Prayer-the Third Dimension." Exuberant Cinemogul George Skouras kissed Pageanteer Mike Todd in public. Somebody else brought out a Polaroid lorgnette. "Whaddya mean, vulgar?" cried one movieman. "Isn't the public entitled to be hit in the face...
...wish their church would defend its position and get up the figures to show that the way to Rome is anything but a one-way street. This week New York's Episcopal Bishop Horace W. B. Donegan made a move in this direction. Said he in his Sunday sermon: "The publicity attendant on the departure of a priest of this church for Rome has highlighted the question of authority in the Episcopal Church. The statement of this former clergyman . . . illustrates the words of the bishops of the Anglican Communion at the Lambeth Conference [in 1948]: 'A perplexed generation...
Dean Willard L. Sperry of the Divinity School, retiring chairman of the Board of Preachers, will deliver his last early morning chapel sermon tomorrow at 8:45 a.m. in Memorial Church...
...Montclair, N.J. For the next eleven years, First Baptist grew and flourished under his magnetic pulpit, and Harry Fosdick grew with it. Each morning at 9 he shut himself up in an unmarked office and spent three hours soaking up philosophy and literature in preparation for his Sunday sermons. Christian behavior, not doctrine, was what he preached; he was against materialism and sin, and for the righteous life. But though what he had to say was not startling, he said it with such eloquence, and such a wealth of practical application, that his suburbanite parishioners were stirred and delighted...