Word: pulpiteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That U. S. church membership is increasing faster than the population was the bullish message of the annual statistical report of Christian Herald, published last week. The last to be prepared by Lutheran George Linn Kieffer, who died in his Rosedale, L. I. pulpit this spring, the Herald tables were completed by his wife Maude. According to the Kieffers' denominational sources, there are 63,493,036 church members in the land, 837,404 more than last year. Rate of increase was 1.33%, as compared to .71% for population...
...great bulk of German Protestants who, like the Catholics, are resisting Nazi encroachments in spiritual matters as best they can, were subjected last week to fresh raids, arrests and browbeatings by police. The Protestants' leader, Rev. Dr. Martin Niemöller, onetime submarine commander, bobbed up in his pulpit after a police grilling to say of Nazi Church Minister Hans Kerrl: "He regards faith in Jesus Christ as an absurd side issue!" With the Fatherland careening into the most ominous crisis of faith since the Russian Revolution, Adolf Hitler's delirious Jew-baiting friend Julius Streicher roared...
...Washington, D. C. six years ago, Rev. Gose Zelder Brown of Mount Zion Baptist Church (Negro) mounted his pulpit, preached for three hours on Gambling, took a little nourishment, continued preaching on Dancing, Famine, Pestilence, Drought. He did not stop until he had preached 88,794 words in 12 hr., 10 min. Robert L. ("Believe It or Not") Ripley publicized Preacher Brown's achievement as an ecclesiastical record. It stood until last fortnight, when in the Negro Monumental Baptist Church in Pittsburgh, Dr. David Buyabuve Mdodana preached in celebration of the 25th anniversary of his pastorate...
When Preacher Lee mounted his pulpit he cried, "This is not a publicity stunt." Photographers' bulbs flashed in his face. "What I mean," he continued, "is that there is a real purpose behind my preaching. If it brings publicity which will bring converts to the faith, then all is well." While a crowded, sandwich-munching congregation gawped, Preacher Lee launched his sermon, using no notes, expounding God and Christ chapter by chapter from the Bible. He was still in Genesis when the dietitian brought him dinner, which afforded a digression. "I never liked spinach. . . . And I never liked turnips...
...Billings prize, of $150, awarded in annual competition at the Divinity School for "improvement in pulpit delivery," has been divided between Clarke M. Cochrane, of Albany, New York; and Benjamin P. Dean, of Putnam, Connecticut...