Word: pulpiteering
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...quiet the people, Bishop Piero stood up in the cathedral pulpit. Said he: "I beg you Orvietans ... we live in dire times . . . There is so much suffering . . . in the prisons . . . hospitals . . . streets . . . homes . . . behind the Iron Curtain that has been lowered across Europe. For the sake of our brothers beyond, one of whom saw faith's light because of our corporal, don't be divided by quarrels. Make the sacrifice, however great it may seem, for the sake of our persecuted brothers ... The Bohemian College in Rome has asked us for the honor of being the reliquary...
Above the Pulpit. As the days went by, even that hope began to fade. Local investigators seemed to be getting nowhere; the FBI was asked to send an agent from Washington to help. His arrival gave birth to a spate of rumors: the eyeballs of the dead guard were being flown to Washington because they had retained the image of the last person he saw before his death; the G-man had brought along bloodhounds which had already tracked down a suspect. In reality, the FBI man started out much less spectacularly, going over the locked church with a magnifying...
Three of the cleaners started sweeping and dusting along the aisles. Wizened, stoop-shouldered Claudio Aguilar, who works on a neighboring farm, went to work on the pulpit. After a while, he stepped down, dragged over a ladder, and climbed to the pulpit's top. He explained later: "It was dark, but I had a feeling that I saw something in the corner. I put out my hand and felt something-I began to tremble." At Claudio's cries of "I see it! I see it!" the others rushed over to find him holding the greenish-black stone...
...Getting a New Parish. "Ministers shrink from being drawn into a contest with each other for a vacant place, and preserve self-respect better by refusing to strive with one another for an open pulpit. A minister, like a maiden, should insist on being told that he is the one & only person who is in the mind of the wooer-in this case, the congregation...
...Pulpit Manners. Author Harmon advises against "smoothing the hair, arranging the tie, or in any way putting the finishing touch upon one's personal toilet before the congregation...