Word: pulpiteering
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...West Philadelphia, has a faithful pastor, one Julius F. Seebach. This summer, the Rev. Mr. Seebach took a much-needed holiday in Europe. No other preacher was engaged. Instead, Mrs. Julius Seebach, long rumored to have been the author of her husband's eloquent sermons, took the pulpit. Irritated female parishioners filed a protest with the Rev. Frederick H. Knubel, President of the United Lutheran Church...
Said Mrs. Seebach: "I see no reason why I should discontinue occupying my husband's pulpit. I am doing no more than students who take pulpits but are not ordained ministers. I am not assuming pastoral duties. I shall only preach...
Said President Knubel: "It is true that an unordained person may fill a pulpit...
...Golden Rule" Nash, it happens, is a man who, 55 years ago, was born in Indiana as a Seventh Day Adventist and christened Arthur. He became a minister of the Disciples of Christ, but left the pulpit. He failed in this business and in that business. In 1916, he founded a wholesale tailoring establishment at Cincinnati, manufacturing cheap suits and overcoats. In 1919, he announced that he would run his business on a "Golden Rule" plan. His employes grew in number from 29 to 6,000; his business grew from $132,000 to $7,000,000 turnover. It began...
Yale University (New Haven), Conn.) distributed honorary degrees to Edward S. Harkness, '97, a wealthy benefactor; the Rev. S. Parkes Cadman, "one of the foremost pulpit orators of the world"; Robert Andrews Milliken, President of the California-Institute of Technology; Ernest Martin Hopkins, President of Dartmouth College; Alumnus John Hays Hammond, mining engineer; Alumnus Gifford Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania; Owen D. Young, Chairman of the Board of the Radio Corporation of America; Alumnus James Rockwell Sheffield, U. S. Ambassador to Mexico...