Word: pulpiteering
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...Church of New York City has had a queue of people waiting at its doors long before church time. For five years its pews have been jammed, its aisles utilized wherever possible. Yet not for five years has a Presbyterian preacher been the regular occupant of this popular Presbyterian pulpit. The occupant has been a Baptist all this time, a member of the Faculty of Union Theological Seminary, Manhattan, whom the church invited in 1919 to serve as special preacher. The Baptist's name is Dr. Henry Emerson Fosdick. Vigorous, vauntless, straightforward, this man is as eminent and respected...
...situation was this: In May, the Presbyterian General Assembly (at Grand Rapids) pointed out to the Presbytery of New York that, while he remained a Baptist, Dr. Fosdick "ought not to continue in a Presbyterian pulpit." The Assembly indicated that the logical way to remove "the cause of irritation" was for Dr. Fosdick to enter the New York Presbytery. Whether or not the Assembly expected Dr. Fosdick to do this, could not be guessed, but the Assembly well knew that no such assertions as those Dr. Fosdick made two years ago in the Modernist-Fundamentalist controversy could be held compatible...
...Chapel. His Grace, the Bishop of Gloucester, of Gloucester, England, will preach on Sunday, November 23, The Rev. Richard Roberts, The American Presbyterian Church, Montreal, Canada, will preach on Sunday, November 30, and The Rev. R. Bruce Taylor, Principal of Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, will occupy the pulpit on December 21. There follows a list of the ministers for Harvard University Chapel...
Every known artifice of the pulpit, the stump and the vaudeville stage...
...that watered the garden, thus discovering the famed mines of the Golconda. Taking the thread of this tale, Dr. Conwell elaborated it with over 30 minor anecdotes. He quoted Bailey, the Bible, Garfield, Grant, Robert E. Lee, Rockefeller, Tennyson. In his delivery, he incorporated every known artifice of the pulpit, the stump and the vaudeville stage. He larded his sentences with such aphorisms...