Word: pulpiteering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...chubby 6-year-old son. Charles Jaynes Jr. eats spinach, practices on his violin, cannot read. In Shreveport, La. last Sunday night, Preacher Jaynes wiped his small moppet's nose, led him out before a good-sized congregation. Not the father but the son began beating the pulpit with a childish fist, pointing a small finger to heaven and piping in a clear treble : "Man has a two-fold nature. He is both a material and a spiritual being and both natures have been equally affected by the Fall. His body is exposed to disease, his soul corrupted...
...General Farley suddenly to take notice of what had been mushrooming under his nose since last summer, it was Protestant Episcopal Bishop William T. Manning of Manhattan. One Sunday last month prim little Bishop Manning left his cathedral on Morningside Heights, drove downtown to deliver a sermon from the pulpit of socialite St. Bartholomew's on Park Avenue. Topic of his preachment was lotteries and he was against them...
Beneath a perpetually flickering lamp in St. Louis' Temple Israel last week rested a plain coffin. In his pulpit, black-robed Rabbi Ferdinand Myron Isserman intoned three psalms in English, a Kaddish (Jewish mourning prayer) in Hebrew. Forsaken was played on the chimes. Two vocalists sang Beautiful Isle of Somewhere. Finally the organist thundered out Beethoven's Funeral March. Only half the throng of 200 who heard and beheld this impressive funeral service were Jewish. The rest were Negroes, friends and relatives of Henry Bibb who had died at 72 after serving for 47 years as Temple Israel...
Kindly, scholarly Rev. Dr. Henry Hayes Sweets, moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. (South), has not held a pulpit since 1904 when he became his Church's secretary of Christian Education & Ministerial Relief. On Sundays Moderator Sweets attends Highland Presbyterian Church in Louisville, where he notes that most of the worshippers are oldish, like himself (63). On this subject, which currently depresses many another minister, Dr. Sweets sermonized last week in Second Presbyterian Church, Little Rock...
...Laymen chalked up its first substantial victory since it organized last summer to combat "radicalism" in the churches (TIME, Sept. 23). Though it refrained from publicly taking credit for the deed, the Conference had succeeded in easing a Methodist minister named Rev Dr. Archey D. Ball out of the pulpit he had held for four years in First Church Englewood...