only in churches,” “prohibition betrayed,” “… asks church to act in social problems,” “Dr. Fosdick holds creeds hide Jesus,” “Dr. Coffin decries naturalism.”[26] These sermons were delivered in very different denominations. In America one wants to preach to the present and identifies a sermon to the present as a political-social and apologetic sermon. The external dangers of such sermons are not as severe as in Germany because of the leveling of public political opinion in America. This situation