Word: pulpiteering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Episcopal Cathedral at Memphis, Tenn., stands the house of the Cathedral's dean. Here, in 1921 from Georgia, came Rev. Israel Harding Noe,- with his wife, Mrs. Ellen Morris Camblox Noe. Friendly, more personable in appearance than she, a good conversationalist, he guided his large flock ably, over pulpit and radio, until he came to be known as one of Memphis' most popular churchmen. A liberal, a patrician, he distinguished himself-without seeking notoriety-in such matters as an attack last month on Tennessee's famed anti-evolution laws. He considered his home life, untouched by scandal...
...were impelled by the strong religious and stern Puritanical code of their time which demanded that each should give a tithe of his income to benevolent purposes and a greater or less quota of his time to the public interest. Philanthropic and patriotic service was instilled weekly in every pulpit, for practically everyone attended church...
...Reverend Bakeman has had an extremely varied and interesting career, having been at one time Superintendent of Streets in Schenectady. New York, labor agitator, and mayor of Peabody, Massachusetts. At the present the "minister without a pulpit", as he is known, is regional director for the American Civil Liberties Union, which he represented in the recent textile strike at Lawrence. He has made a through study of the attempts of the working class to express itself, and will discuss the various aspects of the Lawrence strike in relation to his study...
...Over the pulpit in the Little Christian Union Church of Halley's Bluff, Mo. hangs this motto: CHRISTIAN UNION WITHOUT CONTROVERSY. Yet because the pastor. Rev. James Alexander Brown, 67, could not eke out a living from his 75% of the Sunday collections and was obliged to preach occasionally in a rival church, the Christian Union congregation started a controversy which ended with Mr. Brown's resignation last December...
Thereupon the elders sent to Kansas City for an evangelist of local renown, Rev. George Rider, 45. He swept down on Halley's Bluff with an oldfashioned, long-term revival meeting, organized a children's choir and a six-piece band, roared from the pulpit. Converts came flocking...