Word: pulpiteer
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...most of the opposition to Hitler within the Lutheran fold would probably have been beaten down. Seven months ago the Gestapo (Secret Police), who had searched Pastor Niemoller's home repeatedly, finally clapped him into Moabit Prison on the triply seditious charge of ''misuse of the pulpit to vilify the State and the Party and attack the authority of the Government." The longer he has languished in jail the more of a Church hero indomitable Martin Niemoller has become, and as his trial began last week he had potent friends in many lands. At the opening...
...Episcopal and Anglican churches is the Evangelical Education Society. Last week there arrived in Manhattan a great Anglican evangelical, Rt. Rev. Joseph Wellington Hunkin, 50, Lord Bishop of Truro, scheduled to be chief speaker at the society's 75th anniversary meeting in Philadelphia this week. An able pulpit orator, Dr. Hunkin will spend a month in the U.S., preach in Episcopal churches and seminaries in Detroit, Boston, Washington, Richmond...
...political side a victory has already been won by the state. Niemoeller is being charged for using his pulpit for political purposes, inciting the public to disobedience to the state, and making malicious attacks on the Nazi party. But the judges have tacitly admitted that the welfare of the state transcends the rights of the individual by closing the trial to the public, on the grounds that "the testimony was of a nature involving danger to the state and people." Thus without trial the state has predetermined that Niemoeller's utterances are "dangerous", and there is no reason to suppose...
...Sunday, Dean Noe sat in a pew in the Cathedral whose pulpit he had occupied for 17 years, while a sermon criticizing such "vagaries" as his 22-day fast was preached by Rev. Royden Keith Yerkes of the University of the South (Sewanee, Tenn.). That night the Dean collapsed, was taken to a hospital where Memphis specialists, who had been waiting a week for such an emergency, attempted to save his life with forced feeding...
Having thus from his pulpit addressed his congregation in Woodstock, Va. one January Sunday in 1776, John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg flung wide his Lutheran minister's gown, revealed himself in the uniform of a colonel of the Continental Army. The congregation cheered. That day Pastor Muhlenberg gained 300 recruits to his 8th Virginia regiment, called "the German regiment" and a model of efficiency. Colonel Muhlenberg, son of a German who in 1748 organized the first American Lutheran federation, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, had gone to Woodstock in 1772 after journeying to England to be ordained an Anglican minister, since...