Have We Lost a Sense of Personal Morality? (January 1962 Sermon of the Month) (Delivered in October 1961 by the Rev. Stephen H. Fritchman, First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles)

Fritchman, Rev. Stephen H. [Hole]

Edité par First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 1962

A propos de cet article

Please note: this sermon is *not* reprinted in the Rev. Fritchman's posthumous collection of sermons and addresses entitled "For the Sake of Clarity." Offered is "Have We Lost a Sense of Personal Morality?," the text of a sermon given in October 1961 by the Rev. Stephen H. Fritchman at the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles and published in mimeographed print form as the January 1962 Sermon of the Month by the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles. A stapled pamphlet measuring 7" by 8-1/2" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. A brief excerpt from the Sermon, reading in short part: "I certainly refuse to be trapped by members or outsiders into a paranoid castigation of other people's private failures, sins of the flesh or of the spirit, cheating the income tax collector, the corner grocery store or the boss in the front office. Let it be said once and for all that people who join churches, Nazarene, Seventh Day Adventists, Jewish, Roman Catholic or Unitarian, often break all of the ten commandments and run roughshod over the Sermon on the Mount. I discovered this the day I took my first Methodist church in rural New York. I soon found out that deacons could be adulterers, that church treasurers could abscond with endowments and be caught in Venezuela living in luxury, that social prophets could terrorize their wives, and many other things that horrified a young minister entering into a great and honored profession. Thirty-five years later I still know that wonderful people, who care about world peace, human survival, economic fair play and a living wage, who struggle twenty-four hours a day, awake and asleep, can fall prey to alcoholism, narcotics addiction, sexual perversion, and embezzlement. The facts have not changed since 1926 except that the percentages of sin have increased considerably." Rear cover lightly edge-sunned. The REVEREND STEPHEN H. [HOLE] FRITCHMAN (1902-1981), author, liberal humanist, and social and antiwar activist, was the minister of the progressive First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, California, from 1948 to 1969.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Have We Lost a Sense of Personal Morality? (January 1962 Sermon of the Month) (Delivered in October 1961 by the Rev. Stephen H. Fritchman, First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles)
• Éditeur: First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
• Date de parution: 1962
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Stapled Wraps
• Édition: 1st Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Radical and Progressive
  • Religion: Christianity
  • Philosophy and Sociology