Word: pulpiteering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...16th and 17th Centuries great preachers printed their sermons, which little preachers later read to their congregations. Thus were high thoughts diffused among rustic minds. Last week in Texas, a region hospitable to pulpit novelties,* was initiated a modernized version of such preserved preaching. Scene was the Woodland Heights Presbyterian Church, a small Houston congregation which important churchmen lack time to visit in person. To that little church the Division of Visual Aids of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education sent talking picture equipment. The machines reproduced the gestures and words of Dr. William Chalmers Covert, general secretary...
...have come down and cuffed that man [Sinclair] Lewis - he'd never have gone to Stockholm to collect that Nobel award!" Observers suspected that if Evangelist Sunday were God he would have cuffed Author Lewis much more severely on the occasion of his defying the Deity from the pulpit of a church (TIME...
...This Silly Optimism." From his riverside Church pulpit in Manhattan, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick preached: "Individualism in the modern world is insanity. Optimism is a dangerous lie. If our businessmen were only realists, if they ceased this silly optimism, then the disastrous consequences of our present Pollyanna attitude might be averted. . . . We need the voice and spirit of Jeremiah. . . . If the business brains of this country were devoted to social problems rather than the making of money, economic life could readily be rescued from its inhumanity. . . . Unless we adapt our capitalistic society to the needs of the present...
...judgment one of the most filthy, insidious and cleverly written pieces of propaganda ever published in behalf of lewdness, promiscuity, adultery and unrestrained sexual gratification. . . ." Mr. Lindsey waited until the end of the sermon. Then when he thought that Bishop Manning was turning to leave the pulpit but when the Bishop really was turning to utter a prayer,* the judge jumped on a table and started a harangue: "Bishop Manning, you have falsely represented me. . . ." Plain-clothes men and ushers rushed forward, picked Mr. Lindsey up by seat and legs, half carried him out of the cathedral. Worshippers, enraged...
Both God and Mammon have at last been served. Sunday their praises were carolled from the pulpit in a sermon whose text was indirectly taken from the Bible. Vanities, saith the preacher, my Vanity of Vanities is now showing in Boston. Speaking as a man of God, Earl Carroll deplored the rigid censorship of his nigh Eve like girls as they appeared in his musical comedy at the Shubert. He created art unappreciated by the staid Bostonian morality as voiced by City Censor Casey. Besides bare legs Mr. Carroll pleaded for more profanity on the stage of today; he wanted...