Word: pulpiteering
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...winners of five other competitions, varying from pulpit delivery to mathematics, have also been made known. All the recipients are students either at the Graduate School or at the Divinity School...
...Sundays ago in Seattle's solid old Pilgrim Congregational Church, Rev. Frederic William Shorter mounted his pulpit, looked squarely at his congregation of 400, said briskly: "Yes, I preach revolution. Next Sunday, if I am still pastor, I will preach on 'The Insanity of Jesus.' It always has been insanity to preach the brotherhood...
...three weeks' ostension last year drew 1,500,000 pilgrims from the ends of the earth. In Cadouin, France, is another Holy Shroud, venerated since the 12th Century, and at Echmiadzin, Armenia, is a Holy Coat which, too precious to be seen, has been sealed beneath a pulpit for 1,600 years...
...years. Last week, to carry on their social work and administer more efficiently their combined properties worth $1,000,000 and their $500.000 endowment, the two congregations totaling 1,500 voted to merge. Under the name "Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims,'' with two ministers alternating in the pulpit, the new church will retain the building to which Henry Ward Beecher brought fame, dispose of the other. The name of the great preacher appeared patly in headlines. This week a full-sized portrait of him, his father and nine of his brothers and sisters is to be published...
...three died young and the rest lived an average of 81.5 years. While a student of divinity at Yale, as an orthodox Calvinist Lyman Beecher stoutly believed in predestination: man was damned from the start and could be saved only through God's agency. When he left a pulpit at East Hampton, L. I. to take one at Litchfield. Conn, he preached a farewell sermon on "The Universal and Entire Depravity of Human Nature...