Word: pulpiteering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leonard Feeney, 39, author of Fish on Friday, Riddle and Reverie, Boundaries. Dark, wiry Father Feeney taught English at Boston College from the time of his ordination nine years ago until he lately joined the Jesuit weekly, America, as columnist. As a guest preacher, he mounted the pulpit of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral the Sunday before Christmas and, conscious of the superb sounding-board which that great fane afforded him, sermonized on a subject which he had half-whimsically, half-seriously pondered. Said Father Feeney...
Into a Pittsburgh church one day last week marched Judge Michael Angelo Musmanno and 77 automobilists convicted of drunken driving. In a coffin below the pulpit lay the corpse of one Wasco Bombar, killed by a drunken driver. Ranging the 77 culprits in front pews where they could see the coffin and a big wreath they had jointly bought for it, Judge Musmanno entered the pulpit to deliver a funeral sermon. Excerpt...
...ordained minister of the Church of the Plymouth Brethren, has evangelized all over the U. S., delivering some 500 sermons a year, he held no pastorate until 1930. Then he accepted a call to Chicago's famed Moody Memorial Church. Booming three strictly orthodox homilies from this pulpit every Sunday and one on Friday, Harry Iron side still-maintains a full schedule of out side engagements for which he accepts any emolument offered. For all his Funda mentalism, Evangelist Ironside hand somely admits: "I know the King James's Version didn't fall from heaven bound...
Nine years ago when trailers were a rarity, residents of the six New England States began observing on their highways an odd vehicle, no trailer but a house car, its sides as neatly clapboarded as a village church. It was a church, complete with folding pulpit and collapsible organ, built by a New Hampshire toy manufacturer for a Baptist minister named Herbert R. Whitelock. With his motherly wife Edith Sisson Whitelock, this man of God had spent many a summer preaching in parks, factories, on street corners and village greens...
...Bible-Carry neither purse, nor scrip? Churches are necessary, but Christianity is too big to be confined to churches alone." The church which confined Baptist Whitelock to his itinerant preaching in the summer was Horace Memorial in Chelsea, Mass. Before resigning as its pastor he mounted its pulpit one Sunday last month, began preaching a stock sermon which he continually revises and brings up to date...