Word: pulpiteering
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...hand. Five Rangers came up from the Rio Grande, five more converged on Kilgore from other parts of the State. Within two hours they had rounded up some 300 suspects and bad characters. The ten Rangers herded the lot of them into the Baptist church, booked them from the pulpit. They were a measly collection. Upon them were found no guns, three tubes of opium, three pints of whiskey. Forty were cut out for detention, the rest were hustled out of town. Two of those detained were wanted for murder, three for bank robbery. Prized prisoners were placed...
...marrowy speech never was indulged in by men of straw. Son of a parson, Powys is much concerned with village religion, but his Rev. Silas Dotterys, Rev. Mr. Gassers do not always behave in an orthodox pastoral manner. Rev. Mr. Dottery, for instance, once hinted broadly from the pulpit that he felt it inconsiderate of his parishioners to die at his dinnertime; the hint was sufficient. Parson Sparrow, whose predecessor's morals had been lax, found to his dismay that the more upright he was, the wickeder became his people. In humble desperation he went a-walking with...
...16th and 17th Centuries great preachers printed their sermons, which little preachers later read to their congregations. Thus were high thoughts diffused among rustic minds. Last week in Texas, a region hospitable to pulpit novelties,* was initiated a modernized version of such preserved preaching. Scene was the Woodland Heights Presbyterian Church, a small Houston congregation which important churchmen lack time to visit in person. To that little church the Division of Visual Aids of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education sent talking picture equipment. The machines reproduced the gestures and words of Dr. William Chalmers Covert, general secretary...
...have come down and cuffed that man [Sinclair] Lewis - he'd never have gone to Stockholm to collect that Nobel award!" Observers suspected that if Evangelist Sunday were God he would have cuffed Author Lewis much more severely on the occasion of his defying the Deity from the pulpit of a church (TIME...
...This Silly Optimism." From his riverside Church pulpit in Manhattan, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick preached: "Individualism in the modern world is insanity. Optimism is a dangerous lie. If our businessmen were only realists, if they ceased this silly optimism, then the disastrous consequences of our present Pollyanna attitude might be averted. . . . We need the voice and spirit of Jeremiah. . . . If the business brains of this country were devoted to social problems rather than the making of money, economic life could readily be rescued from its inhumanity. . . . Unless we adapt our capitalistic society to the needs of the present...