Word: pulpiteering
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...fall about me; Bishops and TIME oppose each other, not on opinions but on facts. Be a reportorial Laura Jean Libbey and set me right. You see, my family are, have been, and probably will be Methodists though the next "Battle of the Century" be staged in the local pulpit...
President Hibben spoke from a sixteenth century oak pulpit in a Gothic chapel of surpassing beauty. Designed by Ralph Adams Cram, it is the largest college building of its kind in the country. And if it is the monument of a dying faith, it is, in its very hugeness, pathetic. The faith of the elders that saw its erection is staunch and living, and it is evident that its intense beauty will cause a Sunday fervor among the undergraduates. But in the student mind of the day, that fervor, born of music, mysticism and impressiveness, is essentially pagan and orgiastic...
...Despotism seems to have become popular amongst us. Are we not sending endless goodwill parties to Mexico? Are we not courting the friendship and favor of the very men whose hands are simply dripping with the blood of their innocent victims? . . . The ominous silence of the American press and pulpit is not understandable...
These stories, typical of those which passed through the minds of Archbishop Drossaerts and his audience, were said to be exaggerated. For one who believes them it is surely reasonable to wonder at the "ominous silence of the American press and pulpit." The reasons for this silence, aside from incredulity, are many. Less because they think that it would endanger U. S. relations with Mexico, less because talk about Catholics would endanger Catholic Al. Smith's political fortunes, than because they think their readers or listeners are weary of grim fancy tales about barbaric savageries, editors and pulpit-holders...
...books, certainly, Dr. Brown's does little to satisfy the questioning spirit which above all must be met with its own weapons. Whether Mr. Spaulding has succeeded in doing this is an open question, but at least he has descended from the pulpit and entered into the midst of the congregation...