When the congregation had assembled, the priest ascended the pulpit, and preached a sermon full of the spirit of wisdom.

It was as solemn asas a sermon.

One Sunday, just after the sermon was over, I remembered that I had forgotten to give instructions to the nurse in respect to a patient, and left the church without waiting for the end of the service.

The inquisitor (who was one of those who had accused me of irreligion), being vexed that I contradicted him by going to church regularly, was anxious to make me confess that I did not care for the service: but I saw through his policy as well as his hypocrisy, and simply told him the truth; namely, that I had forgotten important business, and therefore thought it excusable to leave as soon as the sermon was over.

This time it is taken not from a French knight, but from a sermon of the great Italian preacher, St. Bernardino of Siena.

Really that sermon he gave last Sunday on Esau seemed to me the absolute limit.

I said to my wife and some friends, as we walked away from the church, that a sermon like that seemed to me to come from the dregs of the human intellect.

Mind you, I don't believe in criticising a sermon.

When I say that the sermon was punk, I don't say it as criticism.

Had it been the Sisters of the hospital, as M. le Curé thought, would they have let the opportunity pass of preaching a sermon to us, and recommending their doctrines?

" Charles, meanwhile, had risen and dressed, and came out when Bridget knocked; a spectacle, indeed,a walking sermon on the perils that may follow what are termed "good times."

The "well-languaged Daniel," of whom Ben Jonson said that he was "a good honest man, but no poet," wrote, however, one fine meditative piece, his Epistle to the Countess of Cumberland, a sermon apparently on the text of the Roman poet Lucretius's famous passage in praise of philosophy, Suave, mari magno, turbantibus æquora ventis, E terra magnum alterius spectare laborem.

His deep spirituality and eloquence are exemplified in the following sermon.

When his health was drunk at the breakfast he preached quite a little sermon as he returned thanks, holding his bride's hands in his the while, performing his part in the scene in a manner which no one else would have dared to attempt.

And here was this old curmudgeon coming along with a sermon on "duty," "family," "what they would say"as if love amounted to nothing in this life!

He is the author of several well-known books, from one of which the sermon here given is taken as indicating his familiarity with and liking for dramatic literature.

His most widely quoted sermon, "Sinners in the Eyes of an Angry God," while powerful and impressive, does not do him justice.

It is believed the sermon presented here discloses to greater advantage the tender and saintly side of his character.

" As the latter comedy depicts a self-indulgent, crawling hypocrite of the worst type, and is an eloquent sermon against sham, it may be imagined that the Jacobites were not over enthusiastic when they learned that the moral of "Tartuffe" was to be applied to them.[A]

" This was a sermon which Gilbert Fenton had occasion to preach very often in the slow weary days that followed John Saltram's recovery of his right senses.

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" Oh, the terrors of this my first sermon, horrors to preacher as well as to "preachees."

I thought of the experience of the first sermon by a theological student which I had recently read in a comic paper, and I trembled lest history was to repeat itself.

On this elevating theme he wrote a sensational sermon and committed it to memory in order that he might electrify his audience with eye power as well as by verbal flow of soul.

The sign of the cross made at the opening of a sermon often has great effect upon good Catholics.