Word: pulpit
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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During the summer comparatively few changes have been made in the buildings and grounds of the University. The Divinity Chapel has been remodeled, the walls having been paneled with oak, and a new flooring put down. Part of the ceiling has also been made over, and a new pulpit and pews are being constructed. The chapel should be ready for use within a week...
...years since the front pages of our papers were covered with the accounts of Spanish atrocities in the concentration camps of Cuba, and public opinion insisted upon the cessation of such brutalities even at the cost of war. It is but little more than two years since press and pulpit and public were alike fervently aroused because one unfortunate individual in France had been misjudged. One man had been mistreated and the whole French people were therefore denounced as degenerates. Many good Americans (even the Boston school board, I am told) threatened to boycott the Exposition. In South Africa today...
Appleton Chapel was well filled on the occasion of the service in memory of Queen Victoria, Saturday afternoon. No elaborate decorations had been attempted, but the pulpit was draped with British and American flags, and with the purple of mourning...
Finally comes the preacher. The power of the pulpit and the preacher has not passed and even preachers of moderate ability can do endless good to their fellow men and to their country. If one has anything worth while to say, one will always find people ready to listen...
...first time. This dissatisfaction was due to the vagueness of what he said and the rapidity with which he talked. "When I am interesting," he said once, "I am vague, when I am definite, I am dull." When he came into the University the cry went up that the pulpit had lost its power. He quietly took his book, and convincingly proved that the pulpit would henceforth be a power. He was a prophet of idealism in the midst of a wave of materialism. At a time when Christianity was narrowly conceived he arose and made men thrill with...