Word: pulpiteering
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...because on July 14, 1833 Rev. John Keble mounted St. Mary's pulpit in Oxford and preached a sermon on ''National Apostasy...
...East Savannah, Georgia's First African Baptist Church, Marion Moultrie uprose to begin the service by which he would be ordained a minister. Beside the altar flickering oil lamps lighted the church's storm-cast gloom. Standing below the pulpit, prayer book in hand. Marion Moultrie began solemnly to intone: "We are gathered here this afternoon . . ." Crash! The church was glutted with sound and light. Marion Moultrie swayed, fell dead in the arms of a deacon. . . The blackamoors screamed, then set up such a wailing as they had never before achieved. Police came, took away the body with...
...driving run to Pulpit Harbor old salts gasped at the President's dexterity in zig-zagging the Amberjack II, rail down and all canvas drawing, through a labyrinth of coastal islands. Even the agile destroyers could not thread the risky channel at such breakneck speed, had to take to open water...
...Pulpit Harbor was easy to enter but hard to leave next morning when a balky motor refused to kick the little schooner out into the wind. Naval mechanics found a broken valve spring, had to send to Camden for a new one. The President did some public business with Private Secretary Early, who was aboard the Ellis, received two lobsters from an 87-year-oldster who claimed he was the oldest Democratic voter in Maine, signed a musty old hotel register just below ''U. S. Grant...
...plain man-in-the-pew nor even for the average preacher-in-the-pulpit are Bishop Barnes' thoroughgoing expositions of matter, space, spacetime, relativity, electricity, heat & light, the quantum theory and Rontgen rays, the solar system, galactic universe and nebulae, evolution and man's origin. As Dr. Barnes points out: "The intellectual gulf between the leaders of science and the educated citizen is dangerously wide." Yet in his lectures there are numerous stout little bridges...