Word: pulpiteering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agile, soft-spoken old Negro, who has mounted his pulpit in Washington's 19th Street Baptist Church every Sunday for 52 years, is Dr. Walter Henderson Brooks. Once Dr. Brooks was a slave. Emancipated at 14, he entered Presbyterian-owned Lincoln University near Oxford, Pa., at 15. A gift of $500 from some Pittsburgh Presbyterians enabled him to go through college and theological school, start out on a career which has made him the best known of Washington's many Negro preachers. Last month came a proud day for Dr. Brooks when he wrote to Lincoln's white President William...
Last week in Oklahoma City Rev. Homer Lewis Sheffer told his congregation at First Unitarian Church that he was resigning, to accept a call from the First Unitarian Society of Spokane. Wash. "I assure you," said Pastor Sheffer crisply from his pulpit, "that there have been no pious conversations with the Almighty. Other opportunities have come to me but I have turned them down. This time I cannot...
...attendance in his big, rambling church. Once a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church from which he was ousted for heresy. Pastor Sheffer publicly flayed the churches for their machine-like governments, their excessive "talk about God." He encouraged dances in his quarters in the church, twice lent his pulpit to his good Presbyterian friend Norman Thomas. But it was not his theological or social liberalism that caused Pastor Sheffer to resign last week. Bluntly from his pulpit he explained...
Thus was filled the post made vacant by the retirement last October of Very Rev. William Ralph ("The Gloomy Dean") Inge. Once a bank clerk like his father, Walter Matthews had been dean of Exeter Cathedral, changed posts after annoying his Bishop by inviting Nonconformists into his pulpit (TIME, July 2). An able philosopher and theologian. Dean Matthews gets $10,000 a year at St. Paul's, will be poorer than he was at Exeter because he must give part of his stipend to his good friend Dean Inge...
Later in the service he again walked up to the altar; this time he crawled under the pulpit with some difficulty, and there remained, in the resting place of the Saints...