Word: pulpit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intellectual leader ship - Catholicism would cut through Protestantism as through so much butter." Dr. Maynard is an old hand at stirring up churchmen. As a 19-year-old English man he came to the U.S. in 1909 to study for the Congregational ministry, was promptly fired from his first pulpit for preaching a sermon on "Silly fools, stupid fools and damned fools" which his hearers considered much too personal. Converted to Catholicism four years later, he now writes with the full fervor of the oath he took on abandoning Protestantism to "detest and abjure every error, heresy and sect opposed...
Another Niemöller has arisen in Germany-this time a Roman Catholic, Count Clemens August von Galen, Bishop of Minister in Westphalia. In August he denounced Naziism three times from his pulpit so vigorously that according to news which percolated to the U.S. last week Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler has urged Hitler to have him shot. To date he las not been touched, for his influence on the workers of Westphalia is so great, and the news of his resistance has grapevined so rapidly throughout the Reich, that the Mazis fear there would be a major work stoppage...
...that he felt she was doing a better job than he and so felt inferior, children who did not behave as the congregation thought they should, a wife who was jealous of her husband's contacts with his women parishioners. Other pastoral worries: getting the jitters in the pulpit, inability to face the congregation while preaching, how to avoid getting too closely involved with certain members of the parish...
...began. Heretofore, the German bishops have steadfastly refused to order prayers for victory, but last week, says the news agency, all German priests were advised by their bishops that the war against Russia is "for the Christianity of the world" and were directed to declare from the pulpit-what was simple truth although not news-that Christianity has suffered terrible persecution under the Soviets...
...minister who last year was voted Seattle's "First Citizen" is leaving Seattle to take over the most famous Congregational pulpit in the land: the pulpit of Brooklyn's Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims, once occupied by the greatest preacher of Civil War days, Henry Ward Beecher, and later by the prime ministerial drumbeater of World War I, Newell Dwight Hillis...