Word: pulpiteering
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...became a star track man at Missouri's tiny William Jewell college, won the national hop, step & jump championship in 1924. Having begun preaching when he was 19, he was dubbed "The Leaping Parson." In 1931, brimming with zeal for applied Christianity, Homer Martin was called to the pulpit of small Leeds Baptist Church on the outskirts of Kansas City. Most of his 400 parishioners were employes of the nearby Chevrolet plant, but a few were employers. At them Preacher Martin hammered Sunday after Sunday with his gospel of justice for workingmen. He protested publicly against...
...issue. Now deep in Hollywood sin, I still recall my Plymouth Brethren upbringing when old Ironside used to swing it out from the pulpit in Oakland, Calif. He could swing it, too. Good as Joe Yenutti when he gets in the groove...
...Leonard Feeney, 39, author of Fish on Friday, Riddle and Reverie, Boundaries. Dark, wiry Father Feeney taught English at Boston College from the time of his ordination nine years ago until he lately joined the Jesuit weekly, America, as columnist. As a guest preacher, he mounted the pulpit of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral the Sunday before Christmas and, conscious of the superb sounding-board which that great fane afforded him, sermonized on a subject which he had half-whimsically, half-seriously pondered. Said Father Feeney...
Into a Pittsburgh church one day last week marched Judge Michael Angelo Musmanno and 77 automobilists convicted of drunken driving. In a coffin below the pulpit lay the corpse of one Wasco Bombar, killed by a drunken driver. Ranging the 77 culprits in front pews where they could see the coffin and a big wreath they had jointly bought for it, Judge Musmanno entered the pulpit to deliver a funeral sermon. Excerpt...
...ordained minister of the Church of the Plymouth Brethren, has evangelized all over the U. S., delivering some 500 sermons a year, he held no pastorate until 1930. Then he accepted a call to Chicago's famed Moody Memorial Church. Booming three strictly orthodox homilies from this pulpit every Sunday and one on Friday, Harry Iron side still-maintains a full schedule of out side engagements for which he accepts any emolument offered. For all his Funda mentalism, Evangelist Ironside hand somely admits: "I know the King James's Version didn't fall from heaven bound...