Word: pulpiteering
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...wheel of the trim little schooner Sewanna, the best yachtsman the nation ever had for President put out from Pulpit Harbor, Me. early last week with Sons James, John and Franklin Jr. for shipmates, a crew of two. "I haven't the faintest idea where I'm going, except to work to the east'ard," he told newshawks before casting off. "I'm just going to loaf and have a good time...
...Early this week the President set out for Pulpit Harbor, Me., to board Manhattan Socialite Harrison Tweed's 56-ft. schooner Sewanna, lately rented by Son James, for a fortnight's cruise up the coast to Nova Scotia and back to Campobello Island. "I'm going to take a complete rest," the President told his Hyde Park neighbors last week, "except that I shall have to read 40 or 50 dispatches a day and sign a bucketful of official mail every few days. I'll have to do this unless, of course, I get lost...
...this was academic, Dr. Barnes's next move was not. When the congregation of Central North Broad Church announced it would follow Dr. Machen, Central North Broad was promptly locked up. Moderator Barnes declared its pulpit vacant, announced he would furnish a supply pastor on Sunday, ruled that, according to a U. S. Supreme Court decision, the church belonged not to the congregation but to the General Assembly. To those edicts the Machenites bowed. On Sunday 700 of Central North Broad's members worshipped with their pastor in Lu Lu Temple...
...were not likely to inculcate any comfortable doctrine into Anglo-Catholic minds. But after looking through this collection readers could see that Poet Eliot had let himself be guided by his artistic conscience: the book contained many a passage that the Archbishop of Canterbury would not read from the pulpit. Sample: The Hippopotamus, generally taken as a satire on the Church...
...president, Bishop Francis John McConnell of New York, and its wiry lit tle British-born secretary, Professor Harry Frederick Ward of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. For 29 years the Federation has sniped at Capitalism with out attracting much attention. Last week, however, Hearstpapers were headlining PURGE OF PULPIT REDS DEMANDED as 75 members of the Federation sat down to a preConference meeting in Columbus. Conscious of suc cess in the past in getting Methodist conferences to give at least lip service to liberalism, the Federation presented to the Columbus gathering a memorial denouncing "profit-seeking economy." In turn...