Word: pulpit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tikoloshe is invisible, of course, to all but children or evil men. The squealing children obligingly dashed about, pointing where he was. "There-there-next to the window!" Crash went stones, hymnbooks, everything throwable, until not a pane of glass was left. "There he goes-under the pulpit!" The heaving, frantic mothers reduced the pulpit to matchwood. But Tikoloshe skipped off to another hiding place, and in a matter of minutes the inside of the church was a ruin...
...Tikoloshe, Pastor Majola routed out his congregation at midnight to watch him walk alone into the dark church. It did not end the crisis, but it helped. "They are gradually coming back," he said this week. "But when I preach, their eyes wander all the time to the broken pulpit as though they expect to see Tikoloshe suddenly jump out. With God's help I shall get back my church and my people...
...Reverend Thomas Hiscox was painted by a New World follower of Smibert, named Robert Feke. A devout Baptist, Feke portrayed the Baptist minister with the utmost simplicity and force. Hiscox stands above the viewer, as in a pulpit. Though the minister's hair has a certain flowing grace, the rest of him does not. He looks like a bullfrog. The powerful throat seems to be preparing its organ tones; the wide, traplike mouth is about to open. Meanwhile, the brilliantly modeled eyes focus with disdain upon someone in the back row−whether a sinner or a sneezer...
...single church could confine Paul Hutchinson. Born in Madison, N.J., educated for the ministry at Garrett Biblical Institute and De Pauw University, he made journalism his pulpit, edited...
When Cloar's paintings were first shown late last year in Memphis, the event was announced from the pulpit in his home town, and 300 of his old neighbors made the 30-mile trip to see the show. In Manhattan Cloar's reception has been just as warm. In the first week 13 of his 14 paintings were sold. But even with money in his pocket, Cloar this time is going back home again. He says: "For the first time in my life, I don't want to travel any more...