For those of you who who have been reading this site sequentially, I wanted to give you an overview of what I’ll be posting over the course of the next few weeks. I’ve spent the past several months sharing the sermons that Lloyd Douglas preached at the First Congregational Church of Ann Arbor (at the University of Michigan) during the 1919-1920 school year. A young student named Freda Diekhoff, whose father was a professor at the university, kept the transcripts of those sermons and donated them years later to the Lloyd Douglas archives at the university’s Bentley Historical Library. I have shared all of them but one. For some reason, Ms. Diekhoff’s collection skips from Washington’s Birthday to Palm Sunday. I will share the Palm Sunday sermon closer to that date.
In the meantime, I thought it might be appropriate to cover the articles that Douglas published in the YMCA’s monthly newsletter during this same period. That publication, The Intercollegian, featured an editorial by Douglas every month from January 1919 through June 1920. Over the next few weeks, I will post those essays, returning to Frieda Diekhoff’s collection in time for Palm Sunday.
The Lloyd C Douglas Page 