Word: pulpiteering
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...eyed Negro in blue stood on a velvet-draped stage of the American Art Association, Anderson Galleries in New York last week with his arms full of Sardinian snaphaunces. The auctioneer droned along in his pulpit: "Five, do I hear seven-fifty? Five, do I hear seven-fifty? It's against you in the back of the room. Seven-fifty, do I hear ten" Seven-fifty, do I hear ten-?" All over the room the well-dressed crowd of dealers and socialites signalled their bids with the twitch of a pencil, the jerk of a head. For six days...
...sharp-nosed Preacher Rose was called to the Congregational Church in small Vershire, Vt. four years ago. There was a Congregational Church at West Fairlee Centre and Preacher Rose soon took to preaching there also. Presently the parishioners of an abandoned Methodist Church at West Fairlee offered him its pulpit. He accepted. He even got the three Roman Catholic families in the district to send their children to his Sunday School. Preacher Rose makes the 28-mi. round of his three parishes in an old automobile, carrying in winter a shovel to dig his way. He calls regularly...
...pews, of pine, are painted white and the windows are of plain glass, in keeping with the Colonial architecture. The pulpit, dedicated to the memory of Phillips Brooks '55, and the crest-adorned wooden screen behind it, which separates the nave from the choir, are of oak. It is in the choir, which perpetuates the name of Appleton Chapel, that the regular morning services will ordinarily be held...
...Welfare work took up most of his time. Though his mind brimmed with strange economic and political questions, he could still vote a second time for Wilson in 1916. Then came the War. It knocked him loose from all his orthodox inheritances and belief. He refused to turn his pulpit into a recruiting station. He combated War hysteria. His patriotic friends turned from him. He gave up his church, found a refuge in the pacifism of the Socialist party. He founded and edited a radical monthly (The World Tomorrow), had a heartbreaking fling at publishing a Labor daily, went...
...told that the natives had no use for his sermons, which praised San Antonio, San Francisco, the Virgin. Jesus, all of whom meant nothing to them. Why not praise their patron, San José? At his next visit Padre Martinez propped an image of San José in the pulpit, stood on the floor himself. While the sacristan circulated the money-box among the congregation, the Padre exhorted them to pray to San José. That saint did not waste time preaching to birds and fish, like San Antonio. He could do things-give the men more sheep, the boys...