Word: pulpiteering
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...Episcopal Church asked the pastor, Rev. M. W. Black, to resign. In asking for the resignation the vestry offered Rev. Black 18 months pay if he would leave quietly, permanently, and at once. Rev. Black, married, father of three, quietly refused to leave, continued to occupy Zion's pulpit. In August the vestry, vexed, refused to pay Rev. Black further salary. Still the Rev. Black stayed on. People wondered why the vestry was so anxious to be rid of this pastor, why this pastor was so firm in his determination to stay...
...marble pulpit for the Pisan baptistry is considered the finest work of Niccola Pisano, while the pulpit in Siena Cathedral is the most magnificent, though not the most beautiful, of his works...
Things that disturbed Mr. Edgerton and his colleagues were "the nation's $10,000,000,000 crime bill," and "socialistic encroachments" by the Federal and State governments, and the meddling by ministers of the gospel whose interpretations from the pulpit of business methods and affairs he dismissed as the comments of tyros...
Episcopalians call Bishop Freeman "the 20th Century prophet of the church, a leading exponent of prophetic ministry, a new St. Chrysostom* of the pulpit whose magnetic oratory and sound reasoning have great effect on his congregation. " Comparison might also have been made to Prophet Malachi, who wrote: "Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold he shall come, saith the Lord of Hosts...
...quoted incorrectly. All spiritualistic phenomena cannot be reproduced with a small watch. There is an intelligent psychic force which can manifest itself but everything done at a stated time and for money is likely to be trickery." Thus mollified, the spiritualists beamed kindly up at Mr. Thurston in the pulpit. A collection was about to be taken when a member of the magician's faction jumped to his feet, cried: "You invite us here and then take up a collection!" He was quelled...