Word: pulpiteering
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...pulpit" stood Quotation Recorder Bill Poulden watching the clock. At 9:30, as the grain pits were opening in Chicago and Minneapolis, Poulden rang the gong and the pit burst into a bedlam of shouting and arm-waving...
...angrily at the dark sky; men picked up the fluttering leaflets and, without a glance at their words, lighted them with matches-a hundred little torches blazing in the gloom. The Church helped Premier Alcide de Gasperi's Christian Democrats as never before. Said one priest from the pulpit: "He who fails to vote commits a most grievous sin. Catholics must see that Christ's cross and not the hammer & sickle rises above the Campanile of Capitol Hill...
...70th anniversary. "Ma" Sunday, 79, Billy's widow, was on hand for the celebration. Said she: "Billy would have liked to have been here tonight. He loved this place and always came back to it. That's his old piano, and that's the old pulpit. But I know he's Up There pitching ball for the mission...
Prayer Book v. Pulpit. Pelagius made many converts to his more optimistic doctrine; but after years of vigorous controversy between him and Augustine, the Church decided that Pelagianism was heresy. Heresy or not, Pelagianism was a good deal easier to live with. By the close of the Middle Ages, says Dr. Hardman, the Pelagian doctrine of merit had virtually replaced Augustinian predestination in the practical workings of the Church...
...From the pulpit of Washington's All Souls Unitarian Church, the Rev. A. Powell Davies denounced longer skirts. Long skirts are "immoral," he declared, because they "will deprive the shivering people of Europe of the wool they need to keep them warm in a coal-less winter...