Word: pulpiteering
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...small families is not to be impatiently condemned. Victories in medicine and hygiene may be disastrous for public welfare unless the desire for many children, which is natural and until recently laudable, is held in check." The same evening, the local vicar, Canon F. C. N. Hicks, mounted the pulpit, declared he could not let the Bishop's words go unchallenged: "I disagree profoundly with that teaching; I myself abide by the teaching of the Church." The incident had no immediate consequences for the reason that Brighton is not in the diocese of Birmingham; but on the following...
...Henry Sloane Coffin, Manhattan divine, returned from the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. at Columbus, Ohio. From his pulpit, he declared he would rather submit his conscience to the tyranny of the Pope than to the tyranny of a General Assembly. His devoted congregation prepared to gasp, but quickly found itself smiling when the pastor added: "I never thought I would turn to the Roman Pontiff for liberty...
From his own pulpit, the new leader looked upon the faces of ardent friends. Some had known him from childhood. For Dr. Coffin?a descendant of Commodore Vanderbilt?is that rara avis, a genealogical Manhattanite. Graduated from Yale at the age of 20 with highest honors, he struck out from the ancestral paths, plunged into the ministry, and was soon conducting services in a shoddy room above a fishmarket. His first pulpit was an unadorned wooden plank. His call to the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church followed years of slumming. This Church soon came to have the largest Presbyterian congregation...
...step into this pulpit dedicated to the memories of two Christian mothers,* with a deep desire to prove worthy of the high trust. I, too, have a mother in the unseen world. The last time I ever saw her, and the last time she ever saw me with earthly eyes, was here in New York on the night that I was ordained to the Christian ministry. May she, too, join the group that looks down from the battlements of Heaven to bless us here...
...Chicago cleric-"The world will never be redeemed by the voice only. ... In the newspaper, the coming generation will find, when Christianity is applied to the newspaper, a great apostle of Christianity. . . . The pulpit and the written word-the press-are twins...