Word: pulpiteering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Editor Charles Clayton Morrison of the Christian Century "needs plenty of time if he is to achieve the best results oratorically." In one church where he was to "supply" for several Sundays, a clock was placed in the pulpit with a sign: "Preach not over 30 minutes." But "when Dr. Morrison preaches he preaches and a little thing like a clock and an inscription warning him to stop in 30 minutes is as futile as a snowball in the tropics...
Senator Sheppard did all in his power to stay the humming bird's flight. He spent nearly a month stumping Texas against Repeal. He traveled 5,000 mi. in a Ford truck on which was loaded a pulpit and loud speaker. From behind this breastwork he addressed 45,000 persons on 48 occasions. Each time he spoke for about an hour, requiring no cough drops, no throat spray. His speeches were mostly prayerful rehashes of the address he has delivered in the Senate every Jan. 16 to commemorate Prohibition's birthday. Over & over he cried: "The millionaires want...
...South Foxboro, Mass., Rev. Ernest A. Thorsell, whose wife and son died a year ago, found life lonely. Last week he enrolled at the Massachusetts State Police Training School, to become a State Trooper. Last Sunday he appeared in his pulpit dressed as usual. Presently he will roar up on his motorcycle, preach in a trooper's blue uniform...
...because on July 14, 1833 Rev. John Keble mounted St. Mary's pulpit in Oxford and preached a sermon on ''National Apostasy...
...East Savannah, Georgia's First African Baptist Church, Marion Moultrie uprose to begin the service by which he would be ordained a minister. Beside the altar flickering oil lamps lighted the church's storm-cast gloom. Standing below the pulpit, prayer book in hand. Marion Moultrie began solemnly to intone: "We are gathered here this afternoon . . ." Crash! The church was glutted with sound and light. Marion Moultrie swayed, fell dead in the arms of a deacon. . . The blackamoors screamed, then set up such a wailing as they had never before achieved. Police came, took away the body with...