Word: pulpiteering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three weeks' ostension last year drew 1,500,000 pilgrims from the ends of the earth. In Cadouin, France, is another Holy Shroud, venerated since the 12th Century, and at Echmiadzin, Armenia, is a Holy Coat which, too precious to be seen, has been sealed beneath a pulpit for 1,600 years...
...Brooklyn Church one Sunday in 1848, a fiery young preacher stood at his pulpit, gesturing at a handsome mulatto girl who sat near him on the platform. Cried he: ''This is a marketable commodity! Such as she are put into one balance and silver into the other. I reverence woman. For the sake of the love I bore my mother I hold her sacred even in the lowest position and will use every means in my power for her uplifting. What will you do now? May she read her liberty in your eyes? Shall she go out free...
...years. Last week, to carry on their social work and administer more efficiently their combined properties worth $1,000,000 and their $500.000 endowment, the two congregations totaling 1,500 voted to merge. Under the name "Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims,'' with two ministers alternating in the pulpit, the new church will retain the building to which Henry Ward Beecher brought fame, dispose of the other. The name of the great preacher appeared patly in headlines. This week a full-sized portrait of him, his father and nine of his brothers and sisters is to be published...
...three died young and the rest lived an average of 81.5 years. While a student of divinity at Yale, as an orthodox Calvinist Lyman Beecher stoutly believed in predestination: man was damned from the start and could be saved only through God's agency. When he left a pulpit at East Hampton, L. I. to take one at Litchfield. Conn, he preached a farewell sermon on "The Universal and Entire Depravity of Human Nature...
Into Partick Congregational Church in Glasgow one day last week crowded hundreds of devout Scots, with hundreds more pressing on their heels outside. In the pulpit stood Rev. Vera Kenmure, Scotland's first female minister. She was resigning her post, preaching her farewell sermon. While women in the congregation sniffled and sobbed their regrets, Preacher Kenmure explained: "I am glad the decision of the church has been to ask me to continue the ministry, thereby showing your faith in the ministry of women. But I am still aware of opposition and hostility which makes honest cooperation impossible...