--- title: Religion: Best Sermons description: An anthology of the best sermons of 1923-24 is now being collected and edited by Joseph Fort Newton, pastor of the Church of the Divine Paternity, Manhattan. The first volume is announced for... canonical: https://time.com/archive/6651804/religion-best-sermons/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 1924-06-23T04:00:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-26T18:09:08.534Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Religion: Best Sermons og:description: An anthology of the best sermons of 1923-24 is now being collected and edited by Joseph Fort Newton, pastor of the Church of the Divine Paternity, Manhattan. The first volume is announced for... og:url: https://time.com/archive/6651804/religion-best-sermons/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Religion: Best Sermons twitter:description: An anthology of the best sermons of 1923-24 is now being collected and edited by Joseph Fort Newton, pastor of the Church of the Divine Paternity, Manhattan. The first volume is announced for... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Religion: Best Sermons by [TIME](/author/time/) Jun 23, 1924 4:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Jun 23, 1924 4:00 AM CUT An anthology of the best sermons of 1923-24 is now being collected and edited by Joseph Fort Newton, pastor of the Church of the Divine Paternity, Manhattan. The first volume is announced for September publication by Harcourt Brace & Co., who brought out Papini’s Life of Christ. The collection is open to all creeds and all varieties thereof. Readers of TIME who desire to nominate sermons should address Dr. New ton at 76th Street and Central Park West, Manhattan. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6651804/religion-best-sermons/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6651804/religion-best-sermons/"},"headline":"Religion: Best Sermons","datePublished":"1924-06-23T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-26T18:09:08.534Z","description":"An anthology of the best sermons of 1923-24 is now being collected and edited by Joseph Fort Newton, pastor of the Church of the Divine Paternity, Manhattan. The first volume is announced for...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6651804/religion-best-sermons/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6651804/religion-best-sermons/","name":"Religion: Best Sermons"}}]}] ```