Word: pulpiteering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into old First Baptist Church at Easton, Md. one night last week crowded 600 fervent Baptists for the wind-up of Rev. Dr. C. Thomas Brookshire's ten-day campaign. Evangelist Brookshire retired to put on rubber boots, rubber apron for the baptismal service. His pulpit was moved aside. A section of flooring was taken up to expose a waist-deep tank of water. Evangelist Brookshire stepped in. A-a-a-men! A-a-a-men! cried the congregation. Two girls, 12 and 16, approached. Praying loudly, he helped them down, doused them in the tank. Then followed...
...School. Bishop David has not only startled Anglicans by leading his congregation in vigorous hymn-singing and joining with other prelates in urging that Christ be depicted as "strong and muscular" (TIME, March 6), but he has also scandalized them by habitually inviting Non-Conformists to preach from his pulpit. When lately Bishop David announced he was bringing in, of all people, a Unitarian, it was too much for the Anglo-Catholics, who resolved to stir up a trial on the grounds that Bishop David's actions were a "grave scandal to Christian people...
...miss anything, Dr. Cummins went to Philadelphia too last week. Among themselves the Anglo-Catholics chuckled: "The Archbishop of Poughkeepsie is here, with his Vicar General." Low-churchmen told one another that the Anglo-Catholics had four detectives on Dr. Cummins' trail. When Dr. Cummins returned to his pulpit, he scornfully ex ploded: "The question that confronts us is why do not these men, if honest, respond to the urge of their convictions and make their submission to Rome now. The Protestant Episcopal Church would be stronger without them...
...Federal Council's figures were approvingly cited last week by President Roosevelt when, introduced as "America's apostle of neighborliness," he mounted the pulpit of the Hyde Park Methodist Episcopal Church and spoke during a centenary celebration. Said he: "The churches are doing their share. The members have shown a splendid spirit...
...book by editing Senator Arthur Capper's Topeka Daily Capital for a week as he believed Jesus would have done. So much in demand were copies that mats were rushed to Chicago, New York and London. Now 66, tall and genial, Author Sheldon has retired from the pulpit, is a doughty warrior for Prohibition, and a contributing editor to the Christian Herald (of which he was editor-in-chief from 1920 to 1925). He has written some 33 books, but his fame still rests upon In His Steps. It might be supposed that his wealth rests there...