Word: pulpit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farmer in his parish had taken a gold wedding ring from the mother of five hungry children for 60 lbs. of potatoes, denounced the action as a disgrace. If the guilty man did not bring him the ring, said the pastor, he would announce his name from the pulpit the following Sunday...
Fullback in the Pulpit. His leadership of Christian Endeavor and his editorship of the influential lay religious magazine, the Christian Herald (circ. 390,000), make big Baptist Dan Poling a potent figure in U.S. Protestantism. He throws most of his weight into two-fisted action, rather than into theological ideas. In college, he played football on Saturdays and preached on Sundays; once he appeared in the pulpit with two black eyes and a swollen knee. In 1912 he ran for governor of Ohio. Even if he had won, he was too young (27) to take office legally; but Dan Poling...
...fire in his eyes. Even in his youth, he never lacked for words. Like his father, he became a minister of the Disciples of Christ, a denomination originally formed by Presbyterians who wanted less sectarianism and more church unity. Once in his preaching career Dr. Morrison, in the pulpit of a church he was visiting, discovered a clock with a warning sign: "Preach not over 30 minutes." Dr. Morrison preached right on past the deadline...
...explains it now, Editor Morrison never really gave up his pulpit: "I was simply acquiring a larger pulpit." From the first, the distinguishing characteristic of the Century under Morrison was its intellectual vigor. It rose to its present circulation (40,000) in a time when Protestantism was so mired down in social reform that it tended to forget theology-a time when the intellectual world often looked on religion as a misty-minded form of escapism. In such an era, the Century dared to speak of Christianity as a way of life, and stuck to the truths of Christian gospel...
...Integrated "We." For 39 years, Dr. Morrison's pulpit has kept growing: Century readership has increased steadily, almost from the time he took over. The paper is now owned by the "editorial family" (the names listed on the masthead), with Dr. Morrison as chief stockholder. Like very few butcher-paper weeklies, it pays its own way without patrons...