Word: pulpiteering
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...decided to pay. First, money was raised for a brick, dirt-floored, basement; it would be the foundation of a new church building, and could serve as a meeting place meanwhile. Then the congregation settled down to collecting the $50,000. It took 21 years-until Nov. 23, 1942. Pulpit-filling (236 Ibs.) Rev. J. H. Dotson promptly started a building fund, installed three small boxes near the door for contributions...
There were outbursts from pulpit and press. Monsenhor João Azevedo, priest of the straying sheep of Pindamonhangaba, denounced the spiritualists as cheats and frauds, offering to prove that one of the witness doctors, under cover of music and darkness, had removed the appendix himself. But the spiritualists prepared to welcome hordes of new converts. Their Pindamonhangaba center was deluged with requests for the painless professional services of ghostly Dr. Amaral...
...more than 20 years in northern New Jersey, until a trip to Germany in 1941. In Berlin, said the FBI, he had talked with Walter Kappe, boss of the Nazi saboteur school. When he returned to the U.S. (via Barcelona, nine days after Pearl Harbor) he quit the pulpit, became a bookkeeper...
...Great Forest" was afire with indignation, and its flames licked into every corner of the land. From pulpit after pulpit the letter was read, in defiance of police on hand to prevent it. Printing presses throughout Norway ran off copies by thousands. Said Bishop Berggrav: "When the truth becomes something sacred for us, it is then that it can create martyrs." Abashed by the Church's readiness for martyrdom and fearful of popular uprisings in its defense, the puppet government eased its campaign of terror and suppression...
...Archbishop also declared that, if this course of action failed to get results, he would write a letter to be read from every pulpit in the diocese, condemning the News...