Word: pulpiteering
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Michigan Sportsman. Jan Adrian ("Jack") Van Coevering, 33, is a short, blond, blue-eyed missionary. His gospel is the mental and physical healing power of Nature, his mission the preserving and popularizing of Michigan's great outdoors. The Detroit Free Press gave him a weekly column for a pulpit. Now William C. Sowell has given him a whole magazine. In the first (March) issue of The Michigan Sportsman Editor Van Coevering foresees Depression ending with "America's mills again . . . operating at feverish heat, fiendish efficiency." Then men & women, if they are not to be reduced to "pill...
Through empty dark streets in Cincinnati about 3 a. m. one night last week, a handful of pious folk hastened to North Presbyterian Church. Its lights blazed strangely, excitingly. Inside, in the pulpit, was Rev. Homer Campbell, reading aloud the beginning of the New Testament, the gospel of Matthew. After a time he let a parishioner mount the pulpit, take his place, continue the reading. Day broke, the morning brightened, more worshippers drifted in, and still the reading went on, through Mark, Luke and John, into Acts. Fresh readers spelled tired ones every ten minutes. The words...
...church party. And at the "Reverend Sirs" of Evanston the Reveres leveled three questions which seemed aimed chiefly at Dr. Tittle: "Would you be good enough to indicate . . . whether you favor the leanings of some of our Evanston churches toward Socialism and Communism? . . . Have you made a pulpit statement of your opinion of the end results of these leanings in the church of Jesus Christ? . . . If 'no,' will...
Heresy-hunting and clergy-baiting usually dwindle into dull squabbles. Evanston's brought an unpredicted turn. The lay members of First Methodist Church, among them President Fred Wesley Sargent of Chicago & North Western Railway Co., backed up their Dr. Tittle, issued a manifesto: "We stand for a free pulpit and a free church. . . . We vigorously resent the effort of outside organizations to dictate to the Church or to prescribe its message...
...slightly bulbous fairly god-mother, he brandished the wand of reform over startled New Yorkers. His first economy measures took the city by surprise; though it was obvious to many that these moves were dictated by the city's banker-creditors, McKee was resoundingly lauded from press and pulpit. Taking advantage of his sudden popularity he issued scores of orders, closing burlesque shows here, and dictating now traffic rules there. With the coming of the fall elections McKee was even more thoroughly defiled by the civic leaders because he was promptly snubbed by Tammany, which nominated O'Brien instead...