Word: pulpit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fond of setting precedents is the 111-year-old First Unitarian Congregation of Rochester, N. Y., where the theory of evolution was first expounded from a U. S. pulpit, the first Woman's Rights Convention met in 1848, and interfaith services were pioneered. Last week the First Unitarian Congregation set what it believed was another precedent: it invited two rabbis to help ordain Member James Ziglar Hanner to the Unitarian ministry, closed the ordination service with the medieval Hebrew hymn Yigdal, sung in English...
...celebrate while there was still time, Pennsylvania had anticipated its actual 200th anniversary by 15 years. It claims birth in 1740, when a charity school and "house of public worship" opened at Fourth and Arch Streets to provide a pulpit for George Whitefield, famed Anglican revivalist preacher. But not until 1749 did Ben Franklin get Philadelphians to establish an academy in the Whitefield Chapel, not until 1755 did it actually become a college...
...decided to ignore Kipling's political creed for the sake of his storytelling, his motto-memorable verse: Mr. Shanks sternly reminds them that they had better not. Whether or not Kipling was a profound thinker, he was an effective preacher, and he never came down from the pulpit, even when he was conducting services ostensibly for the children (The Jungle Books, Just So Stories...
Result of the conference: a pastoral letter glorifying Adolf Hitler and German feats of arms which will be read from every German Catholic pulpit if & when Hitler wins...
...about. What happens when he does, and winds up in a concentration camp, is uncomfortably close to modern crucifixion. Released by his friends, Pastor Hall is about to escape when across the street he hears the bells of his old church, knows that he must walk back to his pulpit once more. The subject of the last sermon which he delivers, while his enemies wait outside the church, is that he and others like him are waiting...