Word: pulpiteering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before he descended from the pulpit of Newark's Second Presbyterian Church to go into politics, Dr. Clee had organized two of the largest adult Bible classes in the U. S. He became Speaker of the State House of Representatives, in 1935 forced repeal of a State sales tax for relief money. Macmillan will publish Dr. Glee's The Preacher in Politics this month. Stocky, eloquent, liberal in both his ecclesiastical and political opinions, Dr. Clee will campaign on a platform of clean government and economy. Whether or not he is elected Governor in November may depend largely...
This seemed to be the opinion of several hundred of Niemoller parishioners in tree-lined Dahlem, a Berlin suburb. When they met for Sunday morning service they heard delivered from the pulpit an announcement that enraged them-the special prayer meeting they had planned to hold that evening for their imprisoned leader had been banned by police...
While hundreds of thousands of Orthodox adherents boasted that the Premier would have to resign in face of such widespread opposition, he remained obdurate, forbade press mention of the pulpit denunciation, refused to recognize that members of Parliament could be held responsible "by any court even ecclesiastical" for the votes they cast...
...respectively, comparing the U. S. Episcopal clergy with that of pre-War Russia and accusing U. S. mission boards of "building battleships for Japan." David Colony also made his way to Harrisburg for a hearing on a Sunday cinema bill, cried: "I am willing to stand in my pulpit and compete with Mae West, and if the Word I preach isn't more attractive than the swaying of hips I am ready to go back to the coal mines...
...Illinois charter to ordain ministers. One night last week 1.500 people packed Trinity Tabernacle to behold Evangelist Drake perform his 15th ordination. While the candidate knelt before him the evangelist spoke routine words of blessing. Then Dr. Drake lifted the newly created minister to a chair behind the pulpit and a middle-aged woman who had been hovering in the background gave the new divine's nose a quick wipe. Chubby little Rev. Charles Jaynes Jr., aged 7, burst into a treble hymn, Something Got a Hold of Me, launched into a brisk sermon on "Hell...