Wilde's "Doer of Good" Featured in Fort Collins Sermon (1914)

Wilde's "Doer of Good" Featured in Fort Collins Sermon (1914)

Oscar Wilde

According to this news story, Oscar Wilde's poem "The Doer of Good" featured prominently in a new sermon at the First Presbyterian Church in Fort Collins in 1914. The sermon was given by Rev. W.A. Phillips. The poem grapples with the complexities of sin and the power of divine forgiveness. It is notable that Wilde's words were invoked in such a religious setting  nearly 20 years after his arrest for "gross indecency" in London; however, the nature of the poem's subject matter perhaps made such quotation more meaningful in light of Wilde's conviction.

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"The Master Passion," Fort Collins Weekly Courier, January 23, 1914, pp. 4

January 23, 1914

Thomas R. Dunn (researcher)

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