Word: pulpitation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last month the call of First Church's congregation of 1.013 sedate suburbanites for a successor to Mr. Bradley was answered by no less a person than the Moderator of the Congregational & Christian Churches - Rev. Dr. Jay Thomas Stocking. The new shepherd will take the Newton pulpit next...
...after a schism in the Baptist Church, the Abyssinian Baptists so named their sect because they liked the sound. They worshipped first in downtown Worth Street, moved northward with the city's color line. When the church was in midtown 26 years ago there arrived in its pulpit a tall, rawboned, Yale-trained Negro named A. (for Adam) Clayton Powell. After years of planning for a model church in Harlem, Pastor Powell began raising money in 1920, got 2,000 people to promise to give their church a tenth of their weekly earnings. Two years later ground was broken...
...York's Bishop William Thomas Manning is an austere sermonizer, not inclined to denounce the frivolities of Manhattan socialites who give money to his Cathedral of St. John the Divine. More of a pulpit moralist is the Bishop's right-hand man, the Very Rev. Milo Hudson Gates. Last week the chubby-cheeked Dean beheld a newspaper photograph of eight Manhattan girls practicing shaking cocktails for a benefit. Last Sunday at a special Cathedral service for the Colonial Dames of America, Dean Gates told of these "quite charming debutantes, with a background of gin and whiskey bottles...
...many a Detroiter of the cloth found it hard to welcome him sincerely. He was Rev. John Franklyn Norris, loud Texas Baptist who reached fame eight years ago when he was indicted, tried and acquitted of murder. Last week it seemed likely that Baptist Norris would take a Detroit pulpit, settle there for good...
...could yield a little to science without harming his soul. But sometime after 1920 Presbyterian Fundamentalists suddenly awoke to what they called the Menace of Modernism in their midst. Their church, they vowed, should forth with be purged of those who did not believe as they did. In the pulpit of Manhattan's First Presbyterian Church was preaching Baptist Harry Emerson Fosdick. In a famed sermon entitled Shall the Fundamentalists Win? Dr. Fosdick dared to point skeptically to analogs of miracles and virgin births in non-Christian religions. For that the Presbyterian Fundamentalists chased Dr. Fosdick out of their...